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Doing Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is…
- Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?
- If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions…
- But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art…
- 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…
- Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre…
- The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be…
- Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
- Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
- Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never…
- The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and…
- Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
- Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so…
- If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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