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Necessary Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
- Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
- In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness…
- Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can…
- When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize…
- Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and…
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