Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 13

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• I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

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  Character, Men, Action

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

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• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

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  Fate, Law, Purpose

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• When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

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  Men, Care, Feels

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• Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

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  Men, Order, Principles

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• Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

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  Running, Stars, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

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  Care, Vex

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 38,

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• Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

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  Men, Every Man

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Everything is but what we think it.

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  Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

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• That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

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  Gone, Conform

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book IV, Chapter 45), circa 170.

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• How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

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  Time, Past, Two

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

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• Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

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  Procrastination, Years, Thousand

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• Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

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  Soul, Contentment, Doe

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• Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

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  Life Is Short, Life Is

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.43, Modern Library

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• It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

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  Ignorance, Vanity, Principles

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

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  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

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  Advice, Done

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.47, Everyman's Library

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• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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  Friendship, Nature, Philosophical

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• Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

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• There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

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  Change, Decay, Common

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• Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

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  Death, Philosophical, Secret

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

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  Men, Omission, Religion

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• A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

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  Taken, Hunting, Men

  "Meditations".

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• Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

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  Strength, Men, Dust

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