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Us Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
- Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
- 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…
- When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
- When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing…
- When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of…
- How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
- It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
- When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize…
- If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common.' If this be so, then also the reason…
- What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
- Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all.…
- Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
- It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own…
- Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
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