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Marcus Aurelius - From the Aging category:
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Ambition category:
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambition. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Beauty category:
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Beauty category:
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Beginning category:
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. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Change category:
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Complaining category:
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Complaining category:
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Contemplation category:
Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Contentment category:
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Criticism category:
Remember that all is opinion. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Destiny category:
Submit to the fate of your own free will. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Destiny category:
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Difficulty category:
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)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Earth category:
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Eccentricity category:
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. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Eroticism category:
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Expectation category:
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Fame category:
All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Fear category:
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Finishing category:
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Future category:
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Generosity category:
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Goodness category:
Man is born for deeds of kindness. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Goodness category:
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Goodness category:
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Happiness category:
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Harmony category:
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Immortality category:
What we do now echoes in eternity. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Knowledge category:
Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Life category:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Life category:
You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Love category:
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)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Materials category:
The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else... (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Materials category:
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Memory category:
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Nature category:
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Observation category:
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Peace category:
Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Perception category:
The universe is change; life is your perception of it. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Performance category:
Remember this, that there is a proper value and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Performance category:
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Possessions category:
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Power category:
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Quality category:
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Questions category:
What means all this? (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Relaxation category:
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Religion category:
If there are gods and they are just, they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Rewards category:
Each day provides its own gifts. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Rules category:
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Satisfaction category:
Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Solitude category:
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Strength category:
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Success category:
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Thought category:
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these – that where a man can live, there – if he will – he can also live well. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Time category:
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Time category:
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Truth category:
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Universe category:
The nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things that are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. (Marcus Aurelius)
Marcus Aurelius - From the Worth category:
Every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. (Marcus Aurelius)
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