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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
If... It be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man’s acts (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny. For what could more aptly fit your needs? (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Be simple and modest in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being and of that which is incident to it (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Our understandings are always liable to error. Nature and certainty is very hard to come at; and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)
Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there (Marcus Aurelius Quotes)