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Virtue 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…
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
- 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…
- Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
- Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
- 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…
- Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
- 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…
- The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and…
- Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome…
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- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe