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Nor Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
- It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we…
- Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- 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…
- Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the…
- Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return…
- From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure;…
- Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a…
- Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.…
- 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…
- Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes…
- Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.
- Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
- The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches…
- Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any…
- Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad.…
- Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor…
- The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within…
- 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…
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