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Philosophical Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Confine yourself to the present.
- Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Poverty is the mother of crime.
- Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
- Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
More Philosophical Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle