Quotes By Marcus Aurelius
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.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."
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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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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.
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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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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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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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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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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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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.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for 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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