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Content Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
- Be content to seem what you really are.
- Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
- "Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel…
- Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
- Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return…
- Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so…
- Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any…
- The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within…
- Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once…
- Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it…
- Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found…
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