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Power Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
- Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are…
- Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
- Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must…
- Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition.…
- Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among…
- Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they…
- Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and…
- While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
- Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power…
- Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate…
- The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what…
- Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments…
- 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…
- If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in…
- Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let…
- But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault…
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