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Things Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
- 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…
- The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches…
- He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he…
- 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…
- The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning.…
- Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad.…
- Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this…
- The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within…
- All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of…
- 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,…
- There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which…
- All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
- Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what…
- Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any…
- Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once…
- What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has…
- And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state…
- Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things…
- No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with…
- Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a…
- 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.
- Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why…
- Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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