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From Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come…
- To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
- Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
- From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on…
- Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
- Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
- How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
- Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
- Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your…
- He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time…
- Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury…
- Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
- Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
- Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they…
- Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to…
- Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who…
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