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Other Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
- Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
- Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.
- Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
- Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard…
- Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and…
- Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's…
- God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to…
- Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other…
- Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
- I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from…
- Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of…
- Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great…
- The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior,…
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