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Time Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is…
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again…
- Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to…
- Live each day as if it be your last.
- Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one…
- In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a…
- Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at…
- He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time…
- Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
- When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can…
- There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and…
- All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is…
- Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted…
- Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
- Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to…
- Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
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