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Man Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within…
- Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
- Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to…
- 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…
- Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not…
- The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
- Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
- Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he…
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