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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
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.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
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.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Written by Marcus Aurelius
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Written by Marcus Aurelius

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