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Him Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
- How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends…
- It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them…
- For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within…
- Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
- The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
- Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens…
- 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…
- Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let…
- Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
- He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he…
- A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
- He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
- When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to…
- Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to…
- And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state…
- From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible…
- No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with…
- Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
- As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
- The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden