Marcus Aurelius quotes - page 17

It is not given to a cylinder to move everywhere by its own motion. (Marcus Aurelius)
If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. View quote
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered. View quote
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The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. View quote
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Such a man then will think that death also is no evil. View quote
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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 surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. View quote
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? View quote
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What need is there of suspicious fear. View quote
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Let this always be plain to thee, that this piece of land is like any other; and that all things here are the same with all things on the top of a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou chooses to be. View quote
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm. View quote
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Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest. (Marcus Aurelius)
When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere. View quote
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Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another. View quote
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Whatever act of thine that has no reference. View quote
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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede. View quote
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He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master. View quote
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And inasmuch as I am in a manner intimately related to the parts which are of the same kind with myself, I shall do nothing unsocial. View quote
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In contemplating thyself never include the vessel. View quote
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To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. View quote
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There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided. View quote
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Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all. (Marcus Aurelius)
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause. View quote
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That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms. View quote
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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. View quote
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It loved to happen. View quote
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