- Life Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Love Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Nature Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus Aurelius Death Quotes
Top Quotes of Marcus Aurelius
Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Each day provides its own gifts.
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Nothing natural is evil.
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
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The best answer to anger is silence.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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You can commit injustice by doing nothing.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can’t endure.
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Life Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he who has understood existence.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure — all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil.
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Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present – thoughtfully, justly.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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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One thing here is worth a great deal: to pass your life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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So when you hear that even life and the like are indifferent, don’t become apathetic; and by the same token, when you’re advised to care about them, don’t become superficial and conceive a passion for externals.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
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To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more will you see?
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
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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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Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life.
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Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics?
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Love Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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I see no virtue that is opposed to justice; but i see a virtue that is opposed to love of pleasure, and that is temperance.
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The love of power or money or luxurious living are not the only things which are guided by popular thinking. We take our cue from people’s thinking even in the way we feel pain.
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To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.
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Marcus Aurelius Death Quotes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Nature Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it.
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Before long, nature, which controls it all, will alter everything you see and use it as material for something else – over and over again. So that the world is continually renewed.
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It is a proper work of a man to be benevolent to his own kind, to despise the movements of the senses, to form a just judgment of plausible appearances, and to take a survey of the nature of the universe and of the things that happen in it.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.
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The first step: don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all.
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The second step: concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people. Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.
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To rest in these principles only: the one, that nothing will happen to me which is not conformable to the nature of the universe; and the other, that it is in my power never to act contrary to my god and daimon: for there is no man who will compel me to this.
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Whatever the nature of the whole does, and whatever serves to maintain it, is good for every part of nature.
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Money Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Money is your only standard, then consider that, by your lights, someone who loses their nose does not suffer any harm.
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Quotes on True by Marcus Aurelius
For what does reason purport to do? Establish what is true, eliminate what is false and suspend judgement in doubtful cases.
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If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it.
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Other Famous Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man’s acts.
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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A setback has often cleared the way for greater prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights.
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A thing is neither better nor worse for having been praised.
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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
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An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
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Be content to seem what you really are.
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Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges, and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die.
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Because what is a human being? Part of a community – the community of gods and men, primarily, and secondarily that of the city we happen to inhabit, which is only a microcosm of the universe in toto.
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Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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But i get to wear a crown of gold.’ if you have your heart set on wearing crowns, why not make one out of roses – you will look even more elegant in that.
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But if you accept the obstacle and work with what you’re given, an alternative will present itself – another piece of what you’re trying to assemble. Action by action.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Consider what men are when they are eating, sleeping, coupling, evacuating, and so forth. Then what kind of men they are when they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their elevated place.
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Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of physics, ethics, and dialectics (logic).
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Constantly recall those who have complained greatly about anything, those who have been most conspicuous by the greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind: then think, where are they all now? Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even a tale.
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Do little, if you want contentment of mind.
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Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it?
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Don’t be disappointed if you return home with the very same set of ideas you arrived with. Because you had no intention of changing, correcting or adopting others in their place.
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Either you’re going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
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Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn’t, yet these same poems make me gay.
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From maximus i learned self-government, and not to be led aside by anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances, as well as in illness.
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Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
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Glory’s an empty, changeable thing, as fickle as the weather.
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Have i been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?
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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
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He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.
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He who is afraid of pain will sometimes also be afraid of some of the things that will happen in the world, and even this is impiety. And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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How short is the time from birth to dissolution, and the illimitable time before birth as well as the equally boundless time after dissolution.
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I am unhappy, because this has happened to me. Not so: say, i am happy, though this has happened to me, because i continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
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I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.
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If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?
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If then there is an invincible necessity, why do you resist?
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If you commit to philosophy, be prepared at once to be laughed at and made the butt of many snide remarks.
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If you learn that someone is speaking ill of you, don’t try to defend yourself against the rumours; respond instead with, ‘yes, and he doesn’t know the half of it, because he could have said more’.
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In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not also be governed by it.
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In like manner view also the other epochs of time and of whole nations, and see how many after great efforts soon fell and were resolved into the elements.
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Is a world without shameless people possible? No. So this person you’ve just met is one of them. Get over it.
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It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
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It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. Epictetus
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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Let us overlook many things in those who are like antagonists in the gymnasium. For it is in our power, as i said, to get out of the way and to have no suspicion or hatred.
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Look not round at the depraved morals of others, but run straight along the line without deviating from it.
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Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.
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My city and country, so far as i am antoninus, is rome; but so far as i am a man, it is the world.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.
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No man steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus
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No one objects to what is useful to him. To be of use to others is natural. Then don’t object to what is useful to you – being of use.
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Nothing should be done without a purpose.
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Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now, at this very moment – of all external events. That’s all you need.
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On the occasion of every act ask yourself, how is this with respect to me? Will i regret it? A little time and i am dead, and all is gone
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People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.
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Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Receive without pride, let go without attachment.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present.
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Resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring.
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Settle on the type of person you want to be and stick to it, whether alone or in company.
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Stick to what’s in front of you – idea, action, utterance.
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Take care that you don’t treat inhumanity as it treats human beings.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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The mind in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within.
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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as if it were the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
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The rational animal is consequently also a social animal.
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The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do.
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The way he handled the material comforts that fortune had supplied him in such abundance – without arrogance and without apology. If they were there, he took advantage of them. If not, he didn’t miss them.
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The world is maintained by change – in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.
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Think continually that all kinds of men, pursuits, and nations are dead.
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To accept without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.
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To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice.
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To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.
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To have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.
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To investigate and analyze, with understanding and logic, the principles we ought to live by.
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To move from one unselfish action to another with god in mind. Only there, delight and stillness.
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Today i escaped anxiety. Or no, i discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.
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Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them – that it would upset you to lose them.
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Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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Well, what will my profession in the community be?’ whatever position you are equipped to fill, so long as you preserve the man of trust and integrity.
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What illusion about myself do i entertain?
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What is your art? To be good.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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Whatever any one does or says, i must be good, just as if the emerald (or the gold or the purple) were always saying whatever any one does or says, i must be emerald and keep my color.
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When i see that one thing [virtue] is supreme and most important, i cannot say that something else is, just to make you happy.
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When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to yourself and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts.
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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people i deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surely… none of them can hurt me. Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people… it will keep you from doing anything useful. Why do you not rather act than complain?
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When you wish to delight yourself, think of the virtues of those who live with you; for instance, the activity of one, the modesty of another, the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth.
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Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.
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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one i am about to criticize?
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Why are we still lazy, indifferent and dull? Why do we look for excuses to avoid training and exercising our powers of reason?
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things. Heraclitus
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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