Quotes By Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Marcus Aurelius
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.
Marcus Aurelius
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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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.
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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.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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