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Quotes by Marcus Aurelius | Roman Emperor | Stoicism |

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.

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The impediment to action advances action.

What stands in the way becomes the way

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I endure labour; I do not need many things; when I have anything to do, I do it myself rather than by others.

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Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

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Never esteem anything as profitable which shall constrain you either to break your faith, or to lose your modesty.

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Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter:

not

"This is misfortune,"

but

"To bear this worthily is good fortune."

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No one objects to what is useful to him.

To be of use to others is natural.

Then don’t object to what is useful to you – being of use.

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Discomfort is the currency of success.

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Poverty is the mother crime.

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Away with thy books, suffer not thy mind any more to be distracted, and carried to and fro; for it will not be.

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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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No man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, a moment of time. Whatever is besides is already past, or uncertain

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PHILOSOPHY

I read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly do I assent to things commonly spoken of.

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Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, thou hast neglected it.

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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

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Remember that all is but opinion and conceit.

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It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

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Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil.

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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.