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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
— Marcus Aurelius
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
— Marcus Aurelius
Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
— Marcus Aurelius
Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.
— Marcus Aurelius
- Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine.
— Marcus Aurelius
In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this
— Marcus Aurelius
Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.
— Marcus Aurelius
And to behave in a conciliatory way when people who have angered or annoyed us want to make up.
— Marcus Aurelius
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
— Marcus Aurelius
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
— Marcus Aurelius
Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.
— Marcus Aurelius
That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.
— Marcus Aurelius
The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
— Marcus Aurelius
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
— Marcus Aurelius
Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
— Marcus Aurelius
Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.
— Marcus Aurelius
Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you may at any moment quit life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
— Marcus Aurelius
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
— Marcus Aurelius
A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.
— Marcus Aurelius
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
— Marcus Aurelius
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
— Marcus Aurelius
all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way.
— Marcus Aurelius
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
— Marcus Aurelius
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
— Marcus Aurelius
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
— Marcus Aurelius
Every instant of time ... is a pinprick of eternity.
— Marcus Aurelius
Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse,
— Marcus Aurelius
What we do now echoes in eternity.
— Marcus Aurelius
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
— Marcus Aurelius
Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of - and how judiciously they judge themselves.
— Marcus Aurelius
I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.
— Marcus Aurelius
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
— Marcus Aurelius
Objective judgment ... Unselfish action ... Willing acceptance ... of all external events.
— Marcus Aurelius
All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
— Marcus Aurelius
Do not be ashamed of help.
— Marcus Aurelius
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
— Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to do as they do.
— Marcus Aurelius
Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.
— Marcus Aurelius
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.
— Marcus Aurelius
At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
— Marcus Aurelius
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so.
— Marcus Aurelius
Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.
— Marcus Aurelius
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
— Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you.
— Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!
— Marcus Aurelius
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
— Marcus Aurelius
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
— Marcus Aurelius
In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you.
— Marcus Aurelius
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be'.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
— Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
— Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
— Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
— Marcus Aurelius
The gods sustain and guide all their works.
— Marcus Aurelius
Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
— Marcus Aurelius
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
All is as thinking makes it so
— Marcus Aurelius
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be aliveto breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love — Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing that a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
— Marcus Aurelius
Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.
— Marcus Aurelius
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt (iv. 7),
— Marcus Aurelius
The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
— Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
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Truth and ceremony are two things.
— Marcus Aurelius
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work.
— Marcus Aurelius
Love the people with whom fate brings you together
— Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
— Marcus Aurelius
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
— Marcus Aurelius
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
— Marcus Aurelius
Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.
— Marcus Aurelius
