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Rational Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being…
- Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
- Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so…
- 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…
- To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
- 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,…
- The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and…
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