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Famous Marcus Aurelius Quotes
“When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.”
“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”
“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.”
“The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.”
“Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.”
“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”
“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”
“If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'”
“I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.”
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”
“Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.”
“Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.”
“It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.”
“Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.”
“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
“To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief”
“I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.”
“Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.”