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Things Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen…
- Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.
- Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them…
- Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
- Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the…
- Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
- Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard…
- But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art…
- Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
- As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things…
- If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm…
- Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and…
- Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where…
- All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
- Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
- Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
- Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
- All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are…
- Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.…
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