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One Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- 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…
- Men exist for the sake of one another.
- The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
- 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…
- How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
- 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…
- 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…
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
- Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must…
- To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
- This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
- One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by…
- Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the…
- Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes
- As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature…
- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
- Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow…
- Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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