"The mind which is free from passions is……" — Marcus Aurelius
"The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy."
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Marcus Aurelius
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608 Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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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 Citadel Quotes
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Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
— Unknown Author
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head;…
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness…
— Homer
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
— Alan Garner
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What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of…
— Harry S. Truman
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I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.
— Edwin Markham
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By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young…
— Christine O'Donnell
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The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and…
— Grover Cleveland
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What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary.…
— Frances Wright
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