Marcus Aurelius quotes - page 14

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay. (Marcus Aurelius)
You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. View quote
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It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. View quote
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I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? View quote
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Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud? View quote
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For we carry our fate with us - and it carries us. View quote
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? and of what nature am I now making it? and for what purpose am I now using it? is it void of understanding? is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it? View quote
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done. View quote
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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. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells. View quote
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Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection. View quote
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A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room. (Marcus Aurelius)
Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying . . . or busy with other assignments. View quote
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Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able-be good. View quote
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Choose what's best.-Best is what benefits me. View quote
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Be content to seem what you really are. View quote
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. View quote
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. View quote
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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. View quote
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. View quote
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. View quote
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. (Marcus Aurelius)
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. View quote
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. View quote
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. View quote
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. View quote
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