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Against Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against…
- He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
- At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
- An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched…
- The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
- Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments…
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is…
- Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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