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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted in nature as to die. (Marcus Aurelius)
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. View quote
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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. View quote
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Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. View quote
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. View quote
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. View quote
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. View quote
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Choose not to be harmed-and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed-and you haven't been. View quote
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The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. View quote
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We are the other of the other. View quote
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On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. (Marcus Aurelius)
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. View quote
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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. View quote
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If...it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt. View quote
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Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. View quote
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. View quote
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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. View quote
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As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. View quote
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All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. View quote
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All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. View quote
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Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. (Marcus Aurelius)
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man. View quote
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All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. View quote
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He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life. View quote
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. View quote
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Marcus Aurelius

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Occupation: Roman Emperor
Born: 121
Died: 180
Quotes count: 477
Wikipedia: Marcus Aurelius

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