"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise,……" — Marcus Aurelius
"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to."
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Marcus Aurelius
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608 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius has 608 quotes on this site.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you…
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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More Cleave Quotes
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No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction…
— Zhuangzi
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Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who…
— Rumi
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,…
— John Selden
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Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with…
— Pope Leo XIII
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[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave…
— George Saunders
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It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you,…
— Thomas Morell
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They…
— Gautama Buddha
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In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the…
— Basil King
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