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Upon Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to…
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
- How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends…
- Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow…
- 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…
- Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
- It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this…
- For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
- Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
- 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…
- Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the…
- Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always…
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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