Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
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The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
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All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
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Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.
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A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.
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Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
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Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
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How soon will time cover all things.
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
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The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
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Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.
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Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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