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Should Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
- From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on…
- The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
- 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…
- Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but…
- Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
- Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can…
- The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready…
- A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
- To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to…
- 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…
- Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate…
- It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
- Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
- A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for…
- In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would…
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