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Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
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.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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