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Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes
“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
“What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.”
“Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”
“The act of dying is one of the acts of life.”
“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”
“When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.”
“Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...”
“Everything is but what we think it.”
“Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.”
“Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them”
“For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?”
“It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.”