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Them Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their…
- Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great…
- 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…
- Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
- All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
- Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and…
- Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change…
- The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
- Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
- 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…
- Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
- Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to…
- All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
- Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of…
- If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your…
- When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
- Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully…
- You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things…
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