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Firsts Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
- Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow…
- 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."
- 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…
- Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if…
- For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
- The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning.…
- The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for…
- As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of…
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