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Part Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made…
- 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…
- Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to…
- You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that…
- Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every…
- What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling…
- Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who…
- 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…
- The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So…
- My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out…
- Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world;…
- As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever…
- 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…
- Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to…
- Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what…
- Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has…
- It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own…
- Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have…
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