"It is the act of a madman to…" — Marcus Aurelius

"It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities ."

— Marcus Aurelius

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608 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius has 608 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
Confine yourself to the present.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you…
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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