Marcus Aurelius Quotes - Page 28

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• Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

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  Dog, Light, Crumbling

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• As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

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  Age, Lapses, Literature

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• Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

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  Wish, Poverty, Poor

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• If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

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  Men, Done, Harm

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.67, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

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  Way, Human Nature, Wrong Time

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.195, Modern Library

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• Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

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  Vex, Spirit, Courses

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• It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

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  Death, If There Is A God, Wells

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• Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

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  Release, Thee, Satisfied

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

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  Life, Art, Anger

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• Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

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  Life, Fall, Blessing

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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• Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

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  Elements, Movement, Way

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.63, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

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  Past, Existence, Carried Away

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• I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

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  Truth, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

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  Children, Moving, Two

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.91, Modern Library

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• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

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  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

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• All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

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  Change, Things Change, All Things

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• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

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  Men, Years, Three

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

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  Laughing, Demand, Cucumbers

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

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  Fire, Self, Doe

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• What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

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  Children, Men, Tyrants

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

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  Atoms, Elements, Earth

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

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  Men, Use, May

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

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  Simple, Soul, Naked

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

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  Gone, Littles, Repent

  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.44, Lulu.com

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• In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

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  Boys, Principles, Atoms

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