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When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Thanks to the gods I didn’t spend much time while growing up with my grandfather’s mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
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. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
When thou art offended at any man’s fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
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, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen? (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way? (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
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, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Within ten days thou wilt seem a God to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)