Quotes By Marcus Aurelius
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.
Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
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