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Marcus Aurelius: (121-180 A.D.) The Roman Emperor who as a Stoic endowed chairs in Athens for the four great philosophical schools of the Academy, the Lyceum, The Garden and the Stoa. Aurelius' Stoicism, tempered by his friend Fronto's humanism, held to a rational world-order and providence as well as to a notion of probable truth rather than of the Stoic infallibilism. In the famous 12 books of Meditations, the view is prominent that death was as natural as birth and development was the end of the individual and should elicit the fear of no one. His harsh treatment of the Christians did not coincide with his mild nature which may have reflected the changed character of Stoicism brought on by the decadence of Rome.
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Augoeides [from Greek auge bright light, radiance + eidos form, shape] Bulwer-Lytton in Zanoni adopted the term from Marcus Aurelius (who says that the sphere of the soul is augoeides), using it to denote the radiant spiritual-divine human soul-ego. In Isis Unveiled it denotes the spiritual monad, atma-buddhi, and is collated with the Persian ferouer or feruer, the Platonic nous, etc. In a high degree of initiation the initiant comes face to face with this radiant presence, the luminous radiation streaming from the divine ego at the heart of the monad. When the Augoeides touches with its rays the inferior monads in the human constitution and awakens them to activity, these then becomes the various lower egos or manifested children of the divine ego.
Bardesanes Greek form of Bar Deisan or Bardaisan (154-222?), a Gnostic from Edessa in Mesopotamia in the time of Marcus Aurelius. Little is known of his life, and his teachings must be gathered from fragments preserved by commentators. He has something in common with Valentinus but, if he was ever a disciple of that Gnostic, he soon diverged on his own line. Though his doctrines frequently conflict with those of the Christian Church, he is considered by some to have been a Christian. He derived much of his doctrine from India. At the head of his cosmogony stands the unknown Deity, whose shadow is the root of matter — primordial chaos; from the One and Matter spring the Son, whose union with Sophia produces the elements; and duality pervades the manifested worlds in a system of seven syzygies or pairs of active and passive principles. He upholds human free will, and makes great use of the astrological keys connecting mankind with the seven planetary spheres. As to birth, regeneration, and the inner meaning of baptism, he taught the continuing existence of the essential self through many changes of vehicle.
Marcus Aurelius: (121-180 A.D.) The Roman Emperor who as a Stoic endowed chairs in Athens for the four great philosophical schools of the Academy, the Lyceum, The Garden and the Stoa. Aurelius' Stoicism, tempered by his friend Fronto's humanism, held to a rational world-order and providence as well as to a notion of probable truth rather than of the Stoic infallibilism. In the famous 12 books of Meditations, the view is prominent that death was as natural as birth and development was the end of the individual and should elicit the fear of no one. His harsh treatment of the Christians did not coincide with his mild nature which may have reflected the changed character of Stoicism brought on by the decadence of Rome.
R. Juda Hanasi, compiler of the Mishnah and possibly friend of Marcus Aurelius (161-180), belonged to the fourth generation, while R. Hiyya, author of the Tosephta, belonged to the fifth and last generation. -- H.L.G.
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1:Poverty is the mother of crime.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#KEYS
2:A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
3:A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#KEYS
4:Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
5:The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
6:The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
7:The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
8:Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
9:Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
10:If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#KEYS
11:Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
12:The present is the only reality of wich a man can truly be deprived. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
13:Look within things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
15:Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
16:Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#KEYS
17:Tire not being useful to thyself by being useful to others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
18:The man who has done good does not cry it through the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:Whatever is not of use to the swarm, is not of use to the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
20:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
21: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
22:To enter into the soul of each and allow each to enter into thine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
23:Await with calm the moment of extinction or perhaps of displacement. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
24:God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
25:Can it be that change terrifies thee? But nothing is done without it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
27: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." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
28:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
29:It is no use being in a rage against things, that makes no difference to them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions--not outside.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Book 9 Verse 13,#KEYS
31:Everything that befalls us, even illness and death, should seem as familiar to you as the sight of roses in spring or fruits in autumn. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
32:See unceasingly the enchainment, the mutual solidarity of all things and all beings ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
33:Thou who hast been set in thy station of man to aid by all means the common interest ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
34:Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
35:Do what nature requires at this moment. Start straight away, if that is in your power: don't look over your shoulder to see if people will know. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
36:As a bee when it has made honey, so a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
37:It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
38:Thou hast always a refuge in thyself...There be free and look at all things with a fearless eye. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:To represent constantly the world as one single being with one single soul and one single substance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
40:I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #KEYS
41:O my soul, wilt thou be one day simple, one, bare, more visible than the body which envelops thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius. X.I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
42:Thou art man thou art a citizen of the world, thou art the son of God, thou art the brother of all men. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
43:An off-cast from the city is he who tears his soul away from the soul of reasoning beings, which is one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
44:I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
~ Leo Tolstoy,#KEYS
45:Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
46:Realize at long last that you have within you something stronger and more numinous than those agents of emotion which make you a mere puppet on their strings. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
47:So live as if thou hadst at once to say farewell to life and the time yet accorded thee were an unexpected gift. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
48:If You are Distressed by Anything External the Pain is not Due to the Thing Itself but to Your Estimate of it. And this You have the Power to Revoke at Any Minute.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#KEYS
49:If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
50:Be not ashamed to be helped: thy end is to accomplish that which is incumbent on thee, like a soldier in the assault. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
51:Look within thee; within thee is the source of all good and a source inexhaustible provided thou dig in it unceasingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius VII. 59, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
52:That which distinguishes from others the upright man, is that he never pollutes the genius within him which dwells in his heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
53:Even if thou wouldst, thou couldst not separate thy life from the life of humanity. Thou livest in humanity and by it and for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
54:Have I done something for society? Then I have worked for myself, to my own advantage. Let this truth be present to thy mind and labour without ceasing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
55:You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
56:For such a man, one who neglects no effort to set himself from now in the ranks of the best, is a priest, a minister of the gods, a friend of Him who dwells within him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
57:A branch detached from the contiguous branch must needs be detached from the whole tree: even so man separated even from a single man is detached from the whole society. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
59:If a thing is difficult for thee, imagine not therefore! that it is impossible to man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, think that it is accessible to thee also. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
60:All things are linked to each other and there is nothing that has not its relations. All beings are coordinate with each other and all contri bute to the harmony of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
61:If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, #KEYS
62:Thou canst live without constraint in profoundest peace of heart, even if all men clamoured against thee what they will, even if wild beasts tore the members of this nature in which thou art enveloped. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
63:Which then is the cultivated and instructed soul? The one which knows the principle, end and reason diffused in all being and through all eternity and governing the whole by regular revolutions. ~ Marcus Aurelius. V. 32, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
64:Whoever prefers to all else his reason, does not enact tragedy, does not bewail himself, seeks neither solitude nor the crowd, but, greatest of all goods, he shall live without desire and without fear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
65:Time is a flood, an impetuous torrent which drags with it all that is born. A thing has scarcely appeared when it is carried away; another has already passed; and this other will soon fall into the gulf. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
66:Regard behind thee the abyss of duration and in front that other infinity of the ages to come. What difference is there is in this immensity between one who has lived three days and one who has lived three human ages? ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:Truly, man has no retreat more tranquil and less troubled than that which he finds in his own soul, especially if he carries in it those truths to which it is enough to turn to acquire in a moment an absolute quietude. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
68:If thou hast seen an amputated hand or foot or a severed head lying separated from the rest of the body, even such he makes himself, as far as it is in him, who isolates himself from the All and acts against the common good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
69:If to thee nothing appears superior to the Genius which dwells in thee and has made itself master of his own tendencies and watches over his own thoughts and if beside him thoufindest that all the rest is petty and of no worth, then to no other thing give lodging. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
70:Not only to unite oneself by the breath to the air in which we live, but henceforth to unite oneself by thought to the Intelligence in which all lives. For intelligent Power is no less diffused everywhere and is no less communicated to whoever can brea the it. ~ Marcus Aurelius VIII. 54, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
71:Matter is like a stream in perpetual flow; the actions of Nature manifest by continual mutations and endless transformations. There is hardly anything that is stable. Behold near thee this immense abyss of the times that no longer are and the future in which all things will disappear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
72:Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
73:God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
74:As thou thyself art a complement of the organism of the city, let thy action likewise he a complement of the life of the city. If each of thy actions has not a relation direct or remote to the common end, it breaks the social life, it no longer allows it to be one, it is factious like the citizen who amid the people separates himself as much as it is in him from the common accord. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
75:To those who ask you, Where have you seen the gods, or how do you who are so devout know for sure that the gods exist? I answer, first of all, that even to the very eye, they are in some manner visible and apparent. Secondly, neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honour it. So then for the gods, by the daily experience that I have of their power and providence towards myself and others, I know certainly that they exist and therefore I worship them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12, 21, #KEYS
76:reading :::
Self-Help Reading List:
James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2nd Century)
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Bible
Robert Bly Iron John (1990)
Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (6thC)
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980)
David Brooks The Road to Character (2015)
Brené Brown Daring Greatly (2012)
David D Burns The New Mood Therapy (1980)
Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth (1988)
Richard Carlson Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (1997)
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994)
Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (1988)
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991)
The Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler The Art of Happiness (1999)
The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings)
Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit (2011)
Wayne Dyer Real Magic (1992)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves (1996)
Viktor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning (1959)
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (1790)
Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization (1982)
Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence (1995)
John Gray Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (1992)
Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life (1984)
James Hillman The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996)
Susan Jeffers Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987)
Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle (1998)
Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014)
Ellen Langer Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (1989)
Lao-Tzu Tao-te Ching (The Way of Power)
Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)
Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954)
Thomas Moore Care of the Soul (1992)
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)
Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
M Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled (1990)
Anthony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within (1991)
Florence Scovell-Shinn The Game of Life and How To Play It (1923)
Martin Seligman Learned Optimism (1991)
Samuel Smiles Self-Help (1859)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)
Marianne Williamson A Return To Love (1993)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Self-Help,#KEYS
77:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus - Tragedies
4. Sophocles - Tragedies
5. Herodotus - Histories
6. Euripides - Tragedies
7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes - Comedies
10. Plato - Dialogues
11. Aristotle - Works
12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid - Elements
14.Archimedes - Works
15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections
16. Cicero - Works
17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil - Works
19. Horace - Works
20. Livy - History of Rome
21. Ovid - Works
22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy - Almagest
27. Lucian - Works
28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus - The Enneads
32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njal
36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More - Utopia
44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays
48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton - Works
59. Molière - Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve - The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
~ Mortimer J Adler,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Anger cannot be dishonest. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 2:Confine yourself to the present. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 3:Each day provides its own gifts. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 4:What we do now echoes in eternity. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 5:Let no act be done without purpose. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 6:Live each day as if it be your last. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 7:Our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 8:Men exist for the sake of one another. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 9:What we do in life ripples in eternity. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 10:Be content to seem what you really are. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 11:The act of dying is one of the acts of life. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 12:Where a man can live, he can also live well. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 13:A man should be upright, not be kept upright. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 14:A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 15:Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 16:The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 17:To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 18:The universe is transformation: life is opinion. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 19:To live happily is an inward power of the soul. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 20:Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 21:A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 22:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 23:Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 24:To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 25:Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 26:The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 27:A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 28:A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 29:A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 30:The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 31:The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 32:You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 33:By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 34:Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 35:Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 36:Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 37:Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 38:If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 39:Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 40:The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 41:The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 42:For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 43:That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 44:What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 45:Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 46:Every man is worth just as much as the things he busies himself with. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 47:Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 48:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 49:Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 50:You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 51:How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 52:Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 53:Surrender your life serenely, as serenely as the One who takes it from you. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 54:Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 55:Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 56:Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 57:Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 58:Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 59:Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 60:Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 61:Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 62:It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 63:Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 64:It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 65:The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 66:Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 67:Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 68:Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 69:The approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 70:And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 71:You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 72:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 73:Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 74:Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 75:The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 76:Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 77:Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 78:Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 79:Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 80:Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 81:Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 82:A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 83:Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 84:How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 85:Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 86:Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self- respect. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 87:Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 88:Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 89:Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 90:Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 91:Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 92:If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 93:To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 94:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 95:Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 96:How easy it is to repel and erase every impression which is troublesome or unwelcome, and immediately to be tranquil. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 97:Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 98:Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 99:The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 100:Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 101:The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 102:Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 103:Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 104:A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 105: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. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 106:Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together, and do so with all your heart. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 107:This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 108:... the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 109:Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 110:Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 111:The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 112:Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 113:Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 114:Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 115:Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 116:Look then at the material objects of life, and consider how trivial and short-lived they are and how often they are owned by scoundrels and thieves. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 117:How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 118: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. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 119:Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 120:Put from you the belief that & 121:Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 122:I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 123:If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 124:Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 125:Death& 126:Everything—a horse, a vine—is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 127:Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 128:Think on this doctrine, hat reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 129:Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 130:If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 131:He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 132:Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, & 133:But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 134:The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 135:I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 136:O world, I am in tune with every note of thy great harmony. For me nothing is early, nothing late, if it be timely for thee. O Nature, all that thy seasons yield is fruit for me. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 137:Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 138:Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it. Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 139:We ought to do good to others as simply and as naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 140:Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, & 141:When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward& 142: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. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 143:Never confuse yourself by visions of an entire lifetime at once... remember that it is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 144:Take it that you have died today, and your life’s story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as an uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 145:Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 146:Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 147:I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 148:Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 149: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. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 150:Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 151:You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 152:The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 153:Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 154:Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 155:It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 156:In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 157:Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 158:If anyone can show me, and convince me, that I have acted or thought in error, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, and no one was ever injured by the truth. But people injure themselves if they live with self- deception and ignorance. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 159:When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 160:All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 161:Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend... or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 162:The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 163:Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 164:When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 165:A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore, 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 166:In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So, what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 167:Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 168:Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfil itself? So, remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 169:Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 170:When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 171:How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only - Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 172:Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself I’ll do it tomorrow, and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realise that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or ’twill be gone and nevermore within your reach. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 173:Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 174:The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 175:All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one -if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 176:The people itching for immortal fame do not see that everyone who remembers them will themselves soon die, and the next generation in its turn, until these memories, transmitted by people who foolishly admire and then die, will perish. But even if these people were immortal and your memory stayed alive forever, what does it matter to you? What good is praise to the buried, or even the living, except for some practical use? You reject Nature's gift today if you cling to what people may say of you tomorrow. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 177:If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
2:strength and honor ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
3:It loved to happen. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
4:Look within things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
5:No pointless actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
6:Fire feeds on obstacles ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
7:Kindness is invincible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
8:Anger cannot be dishonest. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
9:Do not be ashamed of help. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
10:Everything is mere opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
11:Straight, not straightened. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
12:We are born for cooperation ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
13:Anticipate your final hours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
14:People exist for one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
15:Remember that all is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
16:We are the other of the other ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
17:All is as thinking makes it so ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
18:Live every day as if thy last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
19:obsequious courting of the mob ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
20:Let goodness go with the doing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
21:Live every day as if they last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
22:Not the “not” but the “not yet. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
23:Poverty is the mother of crime. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
24:Confine yourself to the present. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
25:Each day provides its own gifts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
26:He who eats my bread does my will. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
27:Man is born for deeds of kindness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
28:Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. It ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
29:Poverty is the mother of crime.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
30:Truth and ceremony are two things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
31:What we do now echoes in eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
32:Everything is but what we think it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
33:He who eats my bread, does my will. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
34:Let no act be done without purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
35:Nothing is worth doing pointlessly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
36:refrain from all anger and passion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
37:HE WHO ACTS UNJUSTLY ACTS IMPIOUSLY. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
38:How soon will time cover all things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
39:Life is opinion," says Marcus Aurelius. ~ Ernst J nger, #NFDB
40:Live each day as if it be your last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
41:No one wearies of benefits received. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
42:Practice even what seems impossible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
43:Its a dream, a fearful dream, life is ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
44:Our thoughts is what our life make it ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
45:That I have such a wife, so obedient, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
46:...the infallible man does not exist. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
47:Blame and praise have no true effects. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
48:Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
49:He is so rich, he has no room to shit. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
50:I consist of a little body and a soul. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
51:Live as though today is your last day. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
52:Men exist for the sake of one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
53:Misfortune nobly born is good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
54:Ninguém vale mais que as suas ambições ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
55:Our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
56:The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
57:To expect an impossibility is madness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
58:Aunque sean dos, el camino es uno sólo. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
59:Be content to seem what you really are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
60:But that which is useful is the better. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
61:fame in a world like this is worthless. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
62:Our wills are ours, to make them Thine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
63:To stand up straight — not straightened ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
64:What we do in life ripples in eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
65:Wherever a man lives, he may live well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
66:Your life is what your thoughts make it ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
67:For what is just and good is on my side. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
68:It is royal to do good and to be abused. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
69:Self reliance, always. And cheerfulness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
70:The best revenge is not to be like that. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
71:All things fade and quickly turn to myth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
72:Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
73:Give yourself a gift: the present moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
74:Submit to the fate of your own free will. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
75:The best revenge is not to do as they do. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
76:A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
77:Without a purpose, nothing should be done. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
78:Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
79:The gods sustain and guide all their works. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
80:The intelligence of the universe is social. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
81:To be free of passion and yet full of love. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
82:He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
83:The act of dying is one of the acts of life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
84:Where a man can live, he can also live well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
85:All men die, but that not all men die whining ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
86:..a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
87:A man should be upright, not be kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
88:A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
89:Enter others' minds and let them enter yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
90:Give full attention and devotion to each act. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
91:he may not be profound, he is always sincere. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
92:Leave other people's mistakes where they lie. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
93:My true Self is free. I cannot be contained. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
94:Nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
95:Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
96:The universe is change, and life mere opinion ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
97:Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
98:Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
99:Everything that happens, happens as it should. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
100:Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
101:No man is happy who does not think himself so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
102:No thefts of free will reported.”[—Epictetus.] ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
103:The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
104:The universe is in change, life is an opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
105:Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
106:Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
107:To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
108:You can live here as you expect to live there. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
109:All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
110:A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
111:A person's life is what their thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
112:Let every action aim solely at the common good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
113:Poverty is the mother of crime. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Marion Chesney, #NFDB
114:…praise does not make anything better or worse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
115:To live happily is an inward power of the soul. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
116:All that is from the gods is full of Providence. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
117:A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
118:Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
119:Marcus Aurelius approvingly quotes this advice. ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB
120:Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
121:The universe is transformation: life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
122:The universe is transformation; life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
123:To enter others’ minds and let them enter yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
124:To run straight for the finish line, unswerving. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
125:Your life is an expression of all your thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
126:A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
127:Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
128:Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
129:He does not write at all whose poems no man reads ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
130:Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
131:The nature of the All moved to make the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
132:The world is mere change, and this life, opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
133:Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
134:A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
135:A Man's life is dyed the color of his imagination. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
136:A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
137:Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
138:Do every act of your life as if it were your last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
139:Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
140:Do unsavory armpits and bad breath make you angry? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
141:Love the people with whom fate brings you together ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
142:Receive without conceit, release without struggle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
143:that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
144:This world is mere change, and this life, opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
145:Throw away thy books. No longer distract thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
146:A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
147:Because other people are fools, must you be so too? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
148:Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
149:Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
150:in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
151:Is an emerald suddenly flawed if no one admires it? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
152:While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
153:A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse.”—Epictetus. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
154:A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
155:Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
156:Ons leven is slechts wat onze gedachten ervan maken. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
157:Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
158:Our life is what our thoughts make it. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Deena Kastor, #NFDB
159:Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
160:What is not good for the hive is no good for the bee ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
161:whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
162:It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities . ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
163:The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
164:The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
165:things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
166:What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
167:A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
168:En tu mano está reavivar continuamente su llama. Puedo ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
169:...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
170:La mejor forma de defenderte, es no parecerte al ellos ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
171:Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
172:Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
173:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
174:The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
175:The universe is change; life is your perception of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
176:Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
177:Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
178:Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
179:The main thing we were made for is to work with others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
180:The soul becomes dyed with the colours of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
181:What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
182:After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
183:All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
184:Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
185:For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
186:Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
187:I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
188:Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
189:Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
190:Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
191:Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
192:Nothing that goes on in anyone else’s mind can harm you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
193:Observe constantly that all things take place by change. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
194:To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
195:What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
196:Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
197:A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
198:And I observed that he had overcome all passion for boys; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
199:Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
200:A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
201:Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
202:It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
203:No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
204:Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
205:Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
206:A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
207:Manusia mampu melakukan semua yang Tuhan ingin ia lakukan. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
208:No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
209:our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
210:Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
211:The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
212:The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
213:The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
214:The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
215:There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
216:As for thy thirst after books, away with it with all speed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
217:Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
218:It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
219:No random actions, none not based on underlying principles. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
220:Tire not being useful to thyself by being useful to others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
221:You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
222:A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
223:A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
224:At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
225:Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
226:Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
227:Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
228:He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
229:Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
230:It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
231:philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
232:So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
233:The man who has done good does not cry it through the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
234:Your character is simply the sum of your thoughts over time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
235:All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
236:A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
237:If it doesn't harm your character, how can it harm your life? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
238:Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
239:Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
240:Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
241:There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
242:The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
243:The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
244:Waste no more time arguing that a good man should be. Be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
245:Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
246:Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
247:Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live,” Marcus Aurelius ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
248:Give up your thirst for books so that you do not die a grouch. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
249:Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
250:our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to. 4. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
251:Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
252:Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
253:Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
254:Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
255:The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
256:The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
257:The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
258:Whatever is not of use to the swarm, is not of use to the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
259:And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
260:Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
261:Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
262:Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
263:Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
264:Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
265:You are but an impression, and not at all what you seem to be'. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
266:You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
267:A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” —Marcus Aurelius ~ Hourly History, #NFDB
268:By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
269:Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
270:Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
271:I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
272:Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
273:No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
274:no renuncies a ser libre, decente, comunitario, dócil ante dios. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
275:The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
276:“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” ~ ~ Marcus Aurelius #soul, #NFDB
277:tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
278:Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
279:As Marcus Aurelius taught us, “What stands in the way becomes the way. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
280:Auf die Dauer der Zeit nimmt die Seele die Farbe der Gedanken an. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
281:be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
282:Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
283:Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
284:Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
285:He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
286:If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
287:Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
288:Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
289:Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
290:Te embarcaste, hiciste el viaje, llegaste al puerto: ¡desembarca! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
291:The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.' There ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
292:The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
293:To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
294:Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
295:To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
296:Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
297:Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
298:(Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
299:The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
300:To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with
indifference. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
301:To enter into the soul of each and allow each to enter into thine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
302:Haga o diga alguien lo que quiera, obligado estoy a ser bueno. Como ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
303:If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
304:Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
305:Our life is what our thoughts make it. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ~ Ellen J Langer, #NFDB
306:That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
307:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. —Marcus Aurelius ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
308:The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
309:The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
310:The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
311:Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
312:Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
313:All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
314:Await with calm the moment of extinction or perhaps of displacement. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
315:For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
316:If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
317:It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
318:Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
319:Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
320:Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
321:Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
322:Our life is what our thoughts make it.” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
323:That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
324:That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
325:The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
326:The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
327:The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
328:The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
329:This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
330:What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
331:Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
332:Can it be that change terrifies thee? But nothing is done without it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
333:Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
334:Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
335:goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
336:If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
337:It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
338:That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
339:The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
340:The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
341:This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
342:All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
343:Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
344:Jangan pernah menyakiti orang lain dengan perbuatan mau pun kata-kata. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
345:Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
346:Look inward. Don’t let the true nature or value of anything elude you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
347:The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
348:The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
349:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
350:The whole Universe is change, and life itself is but what you deem it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
351:The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
352:De beste manier om je op iemand te wreken, is niet te worden zoals hij. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
353:It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
354:It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
355:Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
356:Remember: philosophy requires
only what your nature already demands. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
357:This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
358:Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
359:vex not thy spirit at the course of things,they not heed thy vexations. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
360:You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
361:And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
362:For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
363:He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
364:Hipócrates[207], tras sanar muchas enfermedades, enfermó él y murió. Los ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
365:How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
366:If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
367:Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
368:Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
369:Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
370:The freedom to do only what God wants, and accept whatever God sends us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
371:The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
372:Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
373:When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
374:You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
375:Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
376:Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
377:Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
378:Does a man offend your pride? Remember he will be dead soon, as will you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
379:Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
380:Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
381:Short is the little which remains to thee in life. Live as on a mountain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
382:Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
383:The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
384:Whatever happens to every man, this is for the interest of the universal: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
385:All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
386:Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
387:»Hay que soportar el viento de los dioses / y sus trabajos sin queja«[357] ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
388:If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
389:III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
390:Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
391:...life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
392:Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
393:Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature’s wisdom. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
394:Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
395:The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
396:You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
397:A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
398:A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
399:Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
400:Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
401:How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
402:Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
403:Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
404:Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
405:Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
406:Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
407:Está cerca que tú te olvides de todo y también lo está que todos te olviden. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
408:Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
409:I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
410:I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
411:When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
412:How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
413:I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
414:..Is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
415:It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
416:No difference between here and there: the city that you live in is the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
417:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
418:In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
419:It is no use being in a rage against things, that makes no difference to them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
420:Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
421:Medita en los principios rectores de otros[260], de qué huyen y qué persiguen. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
422:Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
423:Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
424:Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
425:Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
426:The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
427:The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
428:with how little he was satisfied, such as lodging, bed, dress, food, servants; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
429:You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
430:Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
431:Learn to ask of all actions, “Why are they doing that?” Starting with your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
432:Nicht den Tod sollte man fürchten, sondern daß man nie beginnen wird, zu leben. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
433:Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
434:Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
435:Studying philosophy instills modesty and straightforwardness in your character. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
436:To him they are only sectaries ‘violently and passionately set upon opposition. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
437:Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
438:Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
439:For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
440:FROM MY GRANDFATHER VERUS I LEARNED GOOD MORALS AND THE government of my temper. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
441:How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
442:Human society is a single organism, like an individual human body or a tree. But ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
443:If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
444:No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
445:Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
446:Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
447:There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
448:Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
449:Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
450:Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
451:Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle... ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
452:If you seek tranquillity, do less.” Or (more accurately) do what’s essential—what ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
453:Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
454:The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
455:We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
456:You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
457:All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
458:And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can’t even meet their own standards. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
459:Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
460:If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
461:Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
462:Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
463:on every occasion a man should ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
464:Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
465:The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
466:Wherever you go, there you are—the same person, with the same patterns of thought. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
467:A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
468:If you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
469:It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
470:It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
471:It isn't ceasing to live that [I'm] afraid of but never beginning to live properly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
472:It isn't ceasing to live that [I'm] afraid of but never beginning to live properlyز ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
473:Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
474:My city and my country, as I am Antoninus, is Rome; as I am a man, it is the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
475:Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
476:Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher, if thou wouldst be tranquil.- ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
477:See unceasingly the enchainment, the mutual solidarity of all things and all beings ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
478:Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
479:Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
480:Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say (I. C. 19). ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
481:As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
482:Don’t be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you’ll be no one, nowhere. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
483:Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
484:He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
485:No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
486:No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
487:Objective judgment … Unselfish action … Willing acceptance … of all external events. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
488:There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
489:Thou who hast been set in thy station of man to aid by all means the common interest ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
490:Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
491:Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
492:Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
493:Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
494:Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
495:That no one could ever have felt patronized by him—or in a position to patronize him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
496:Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
497:All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
498:Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
499:If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, ‘I awake to do the work of a man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
500:Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
501:Soon, you will have forgotten everything.
Soon, everybody will have forgotten you. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
502:The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the nonobvious. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
503:The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose. That ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
504:All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
505:Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
506:If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
507:If within the power of another, whom do you blame—atoms or gods? To do either is folly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
508:Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
509:Marcus Aurelius once said that a person’s life is “dyed with the color of his imagination. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
510:el no dejarme regir, ni aun en las cosas mínimas, por otros principios que por la razón; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
511:forzoso que sean infelices quienes no siguen de cerca los movimientos de su propia alma. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
512:Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
513:I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
514:Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
515:This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breath and the ruling Reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
516:All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
517:All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
518:And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
519:every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. In ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
520:every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
521:everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
522:How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
523:It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
524:Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
525:The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
526:The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
527:Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
528:When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
529:And indeed he who pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil, is guilty of impiety. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
530:Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
531:Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
532:Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
533:It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
534:It is not death that a man should fear, but rather he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
535:Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
536:Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
537:The thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
538:What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
539:You have a mind? —Yes. Well, why not use it? Isn’t that all you want—for it to do its job? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
540:How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything that happens in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
541:It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
542:Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
543:Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
544:Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
545:To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
546:Acuérdate de esto y de lo siguiente, que de poquísimas cosas depende tener una vida feliz. Y ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
547:Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
548:Disgraceful if, in this life where your body does not fail, your soul should fail you first. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
549:For in those things that properly belong
unto the mind, she cannot be hindered by any man ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
550:How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
551:How rotten and spurious is the man who says: “I have decided to be straightforward with you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
552:I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured anyone else if I could avoid it? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
553:People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
554:To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
555:Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
556:7. Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
557:Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
558:Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
559:Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
560:For all things fade and turn to fable, and quickly too, utter oblivion covers them like sand. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
561:How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
562:Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul. Especially ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
563:Reverence: so you’ll accept what you’re allotted. Nature intended it for you, and you for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
564:So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
565:That which isn’t good for the hive, isn’t good for the bee.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.54 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
566:To follow the logos in all things is to be relaxed and energetic, joyful and serious at once. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
567:Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
568:You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
569:And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
570:And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
571:Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
572:In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
573:It is a shame when the soul is first to give way in this life, and the body does not give way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
574:Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if you will ever dig. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
575:Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
576:Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.’ Marcus Aurelius said that. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
577:Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (one of the doer-Stoic authors), “fire feeds on obstacles. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
578:This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
579:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
580:You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
581:And to behave in a conciliatory way when people who have angered or annoyed us want to make up. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
582:Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
583:Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it. ~ Earl Nightingale, #NFDB
584:Not to be offended with other men's liberty of speech, and to apply myself unto philosophy. Him ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
585:Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
586:Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
587:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
588:17. To pursue the unattainable is insanity, yet the thoughtless can never refrain from doing so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
589:A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
590:Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
591:Manage all your actions, words, and thoughts accordingly, since you may at any moment quit life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
592:Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles now, one later, but it makes no difference ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
593:Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
594:The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
595:Thou hast always a refuge in thyself...There be free and look at all things with a fearless eye. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
596:Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
597:To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
598:Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
599:External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
600:How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
601:It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
602:Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
603:Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
604:Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
605:The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
606:Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
607:Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be
done. If you can see the road, follow it. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
608:He poor, that stands in need of another, and hath not in himself all things needful for this life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
609:No matter how good a life you lead, you won’t please everyone. Someone will be glad to see you go. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
610:The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
611:What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
612:YOU’RE GOING TO BE OK “Don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.43 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
613:56. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
614:Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
615:Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
616:Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
617:Excava dentro. Dentro está la fuente del bien que puede siempre borbotar de nuevo mientras excaves. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
618:It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
619:Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
620:To grieve or be angry about or fear what happens to you is to be a fugitive from the law of nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
621:We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
622:Basta con poner tu atención y deseo en ser bueno contigo mismo en cualquier cosa que hagas. Recuerda ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
623:Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
624:Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
625:Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
626:Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
627:Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
628:There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
629:The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
630:To represent constantly the world as one single being with one single soul and one single substance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
631:To the world: Your harmony is mine. Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
632:Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
633:You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
634:8. It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you—inside or out. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
635:He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
636:It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
637:It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
638:let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
639:Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
640:No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
641:Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
642:To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
643:To pursue the impossible is madness: but it is impossible for evil men not to do things of this sort. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
644:Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
645:How many of them who came into the world at the same time when I did, are already gone out of it? LII. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
646:If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not due to the thing but to your own estimate of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
647:If you are distressed about anything, the pain is not one to the thing but to your own estimate to it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
648:Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
649:Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
650:¿Consideras, en resumen, que es desgracia del hombre lo que no es desacierto de la naturaleza humana? ¿ ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
651:Dig deep; the water- goodness- is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
652:O my soul, wilt thou be one day simple, one, bare, more visible than the body which envelops thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius. X.I, #NFDB
653:This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
654:Thou art man thou art a citizen of the world, thou art the son of God, thou art the brother of all men. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
655:Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
656:An off-cast from the city is he who tears his soul away from the soul of reasoning beings, which is one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
657:Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
658:Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
659:Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
660:It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
661:Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
662:Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
663:XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
664:Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
665:71. It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
666:A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
667:Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
668:Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
669:How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
670:Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
671:—Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
672:The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” –Marcus Aurelius, 121–180 AD ~ Francine Jay, #NFDB
673:As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
674:Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. —MARCUS AURELIUS R ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
675:Dig inside yourself. Inside there is a spring of goodness ready to gush at any moment if you keep digging. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
676:Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
677:How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
678:If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
679:Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
680:Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
681:Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
682:Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
683:Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
684:The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
685:When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ... ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
686:A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
687:Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
688:If you’re honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
689:In a little while you will have forgotten everything; in a little while everything will have forgotten you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
690:In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
691:It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
692:Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
693:Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
694:The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
695:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it’s all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
696:Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
697:Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases; cease your complaint, and you are not hurt” (iv. 7), ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
698:Enter their minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
699:it is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been lived or may never ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
700:It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
701:It was my tutor who dissuaded me from patronizing Green or Blue at the races, or Light or Heavy in the ring; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
702:Organisms need, to use the metaphor of Marcus Aurelius, to turn obstacles into fuel—just as fire does. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
703:Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor without due examination, nor with reluctancy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
704:Inlatura parerea: este inlaturat „am fost vatamat”; inlatura „am fost vatamat” este inlaturat si prejudiciul. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
705:Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
706:The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
707:Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
708:Always bear this in mind; and another thing too, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
709:Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
710:Entrar en conflicto unos con otros es contrario a la naturaleza; conflicto es enfadarse y darse media vuelta. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
711:Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
712:If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
713:In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
714:Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
715:Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
716:Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
717:Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
718:And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
719:esta adversidad no es un infortunio, mas soportarlo noblemente es una suerte. 50. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
720:Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
721:frenar durante su mandato las aclamaciones y cualquier adulación; ser vigilante de las necesidades del imperio, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
722:In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
723:It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
724:It should be a man's task, says the Imitation, 'to overcome himself, and every day to be stronger than himself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
725:Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
726:Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
727:Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
728:We are all mere nuggets of incense on the one altar. Some burn down now , some later - there is no difference . ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
729:For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
730:It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
731:it is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been lived or may never be. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
732:My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
733:So live as if thou hadst at once to say farewell to life and the time yet accorded thee were an unexpected gift. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
734:striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
735:The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
736:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it’s all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Ever ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
737:Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to respect thyself, will be at an end. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
738:Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
739:Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
740:Take pleasure in one thing and rest in it, in passing from one social act to another social act, thinking of God. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
741:Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
742:Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
743:To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
744:Even when the gods stood on the side of righteousness, they were concerned with the act more than with the intent. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
745:He claimed that a man's life should be valued according to the value of the things to which he gave his attention. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
746:He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
747:No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that is not required by Nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
748:People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
749:Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
750:That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
751:Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
752:A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
753:Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
754:If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
755:In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
756:No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
757:To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
758:What is divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
759:Basta abandonar todo o passado, confiar o futura à providência e dirigir a ação presente para a piedade e a justiça. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
760:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
761:Never wilt your soul, never be just good, simple or unpolished. Manifest more then the body that surrounds yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
762:Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
763:Be not ashamed to be helped: thy end is to accomplish that which is incumbent on thee, like a soldier in the assault. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
764:Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
765:Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
766:No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
767:Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able—be good. 18. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
768:Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
769:Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
770:Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
771:The fencer’s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer’s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
772:Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
773:Be not querulous, be Content with little, be kind, be free; avoid all superfluity, all vain prattling; be magnanimous. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
774:Do you have reason? I have. Why then do you not use it? For if reason does its own work, what else could you wish for? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
775:How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
776:How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way.—What art thou doing, man? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
777:If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
778:It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
779:Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
780:queda como propio de la persona buena desear y conformarse con lo que le ocurre y estar entrelazado con su destino. Al ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
781: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
782:Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self surrender. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
783:And those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things—they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
784:keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
785:never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
786:Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
787:The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
788: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
789:Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
790:And give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch, but in true grace and heartfelt gratitude to the god ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
791:God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
792:If asked, he would no doubt have responded that “true” slavery is the self-enslavement of the mind to emotion and desire ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
793:If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
794:It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.29 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
795:Jangan mencintai apapun kecuali yang datang padamu,
karena adakah yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhanmu dengan lebih tepat? ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
796:Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
797:The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
798:You shouldn’t give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don’t care at all.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.38 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
799:God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
800:In this infinity then what is the difference between him who lives three days and him who lives three generations? Always ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
801:Justice: so that you’ll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
802:Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
803:that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
804:The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
805:Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
806:To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
807:You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
808:a ripe mature man, a perfect sound man; one that could not endure to be flattered; able to govern both himself and others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
809:Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
810:Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
811:Há fulanos que quando fazem algum favor a alguém estão logo prontos para lançar no livro de contas o agradecimento devido. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
812:He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
813:How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
814:It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
815:Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
816:Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
817:Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
818:Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
819:The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
820:Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” –Marcus Aurelius, 121–180 AD ~ Francine Jay, #NFDB
821:When you are offended at any man’s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
822:Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
823:Detente particularmente en cada una de las acciones que haces y pregúntate si la muerte es terrible porque te priva de eso. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
824:hay que ver siempre lo humano como flor de un día e inconsistente, ayer era una mucosidad, mañana será momia y cenizas. Ese ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
825:It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
826:Life is short. That’s all there is to say. Get what you can from the present—thoughtfully, justly. Unrestrained moderation. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
827:They despise one another, yet they flatter one another;they sant to get above another and get they bow down to one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
828:A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
829:Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
830:Budi poput krševite obale o koju se neprestance lome valovi. Ona stoji postojano, a oko nje uzavrele vode polako se smiruju. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
831:Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
832:How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
833:Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
834:To recover your life is within your power; simply view things again as once you viewed them, for your revival rests in that. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
835:When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
836: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
837:43. Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
838:A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
839:No malogres la parte de vida que te queda en averiguar vidas ajenas, a no ser que te propongas algún fin útil a la comunidad. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
840:Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
841:28. Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
842:Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
843:Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
844:Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel de Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
845:Hay que reflexionar continuamente en cuántos médicos han muerto tras haber fruncido el entrecejo muchas veces por sus enfermos ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
846:My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
847:Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
848: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
849:And moreover, to fear pain is to fear something that’s bound to happen, the world being what it is—and that again is blasphemy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
850:Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
851:Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
852:Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
853:Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
854:Look within thee; within thee is the source of all good and a source inexhaustible provided thou dig in it unceasingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius VII. 59, #NFDB
855:Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
856:Pride is a master of deception: when you think you're occupied in the weightiest business, that's when he has you in his spell. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
857:Pride is a master of deception: when you think you’re occupied in the weightiest business, that’s when he has you in his spell. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
858:still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
859:There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
860:The truly fortunate person has created his own good fortune through good habits of the soul, good intentions, and good actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
861:where a man can live, there he can also live well. But he must live in a palace;- well then, he can also live well in a palace. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
862:Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
863:Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
864:BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
865:Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
866:Every portion of me will be reassigned as another portion of the world, and that in turn transformed into another. Ad infinitum. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
867:Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius said it best: “The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB
868:That which distinguishes from others the upright man, is that he never pollutes the genius within him which dwells in his heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
869:Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
870:Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
871:"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
872:Even if thou wouldst, thou couldst not separate thy life from the life of humanity. Thou livest in humanity and by it and for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
873:If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
874:In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
875:La perfección del carácter supone que cada día transcurra como el último, sin palpitos, sin cabezadas, sin actuaciones teatrales. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
876:All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
877:Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
878:But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
879:Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
880:...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
881:This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
882:Today I have got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out all trouble, for it was not outside, but within and in my opinions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
883:For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
884:Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
885:listen to Marcus Aurelius’s empowering call to “get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
886:Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
887:Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
888:All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
889:Destrói a opinião, e destruído estará o pensamento “fui prejudicado”. Destrói a queixa “fui prejudicado”, e destruído estará o dano. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
890:Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration? Does gold, or ivory, or purple? A lyre or a dagger, a rosebud or a sapling? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
891:Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
892:habla y actúa en todo según lo que sea más sano. Ese planteamiento te libera de golpes, de vacilación, de preocupación y afectación. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
893:I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
894: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. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
895:Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
896:The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
897:To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
898:At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
899:Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
900:No te aficiones más que a lo que te acontezca y a lo que forme la trama de la vida. ¿Pues qué otra cosa podrá serte más oportuna?
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
901:That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
902:The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
903:The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
904:Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
905:To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
906:Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
907:Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
908:No te avergüences de recibir ayuda porque tienes delante realizar la tarea que te corresponde como el soldado que ataca una muralla. ¿ ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
909:People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
910:Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
911:Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
912:Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at—gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
913:There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
914:There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
915:Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions--not outside.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Book 9 Verse 13,#NFDB
916:to grumble at anything that happens is a rebellion against Nature, in some part of which are bound up the natures of all other things. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
917:When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
918:He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
919:Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
920:»Soy afortunado porque, a pesar de haberme ocurrido eso, permanezco sin pena y no me rompo por el presente ni temo el porvenir.« Porque ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
921:264. "Such as you are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for your soul is dyed through the thoughts." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
922:Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
923:It is ridiculous not to escape from one’s own vices, which is possible, while trying to escape the vices of others, which is impossible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
924:la naturaleza también nos dio su medida, también nos la dio del comer y del beber, no obstante, tú sobrepasas lo que es suficiente. Pero ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
925:Remember: philosophy requires only what your nature already demands. What you’ve been after is something else again—something unnatural. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
926:37. Disgraceful: that the mind should control the face, should be able to shape and mold it as it pleases, but not shape and mold itself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
927:All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
928:But cast away the thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring, but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
929:Death is relief from reaction to the senses, from the puppet strings of impulse, from the analytical mind, and from service to the flesh. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
930: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
931:Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
932:The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
933:To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
934:Wie weit bist du in der Erkenntnis, daß keine andere Lebensweise zum Philosophieren so geeignet sei, als die, die du jetzt gerade führst? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
935:You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
936:Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
937:Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present... ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
938:Now a man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also, unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after. Try ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
939:recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from “good families. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
940:Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
941:Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
942:Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
943:Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
944:The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
945:The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
946:Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
947:Don't live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have life, while you may, become good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
948:Es ridículo no intentar evitar tu propia maldad, lo cual es posible, y, en cambio, intentar evitar la de los demás, lo cual es lo imposible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
949:Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
950:Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
951:Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
952:Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
953:The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out.
There are brambles in the path? Then go around.
That’s all you need to know. — MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday,#NFDB
954:The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
955:What is this, fundamentally? What is its nature and substance, its reason for being? What is it doing in the world? How long is it here for? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
956:Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
957:"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
958:Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
959:Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
960:Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. —MARCUS AURELIUS, ROMAN EMPEROR AND PHILOSOPHER ~ Josh Kaufman, #NFDB
961:Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
962: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
963:Qui una sola cosa ha valore: trascorrere tutta la vita nella verità e nella giustizia pur trattando con indulgenza i bugiardi e gli ingiusti. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
964:Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
965:That which does not make a man worse than he was, also does not make his life worse, nor does it harm him either from without or from within. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
966:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in as much as it, too, demands a from and watchful stance against any unexpected onset ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
967: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. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Jennifer Wright, #NFDB
968:XXIX. As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so are they that long after children, before they be granted them. XXX. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
969:a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
970:Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
971:Continually, and, if possible, in the case of every mental image, consider its nature, realize its emotional content, and judge it rationally. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
972:Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
973:Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
974:People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
975:People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
976:Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
977:Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
978:Si la ciudad se perjudica no hay que irritarse con quien la perjudica, por el contrario hay que señalarle qué es lo que le pasó desapercibido. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
979:The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
980:To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken of: whom ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
981:Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
982:Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
983:Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
984:Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
985:He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
986:How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
987:Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
988:Put from you the belief that I have been wronged and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
989:Que no te aparte que detrás venga la crítica o la palabra de algunos, por el contrario, si está bien hecho o bien dicho, no te subestimes. Ellos ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
990:Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
991:Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
992:The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you—treat them with love. With real love. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
993:for a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
994:How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
995:the Roman Empire, Marcus Aurelius, summed it up in eight words—eight words that can determine your destiny: “Our life is what our thoughts make it. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
996:But by all means bear this in mind, that within a very short time both thou and he will be dead; and soon not even your names will be left behind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
997:Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
998:How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.8 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
999:If they’ve made a mistake, correct them gently and show them where they went wrong. If you can’t do that, then the blame lies with you. Or no one. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1000:Soon you'll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1001:To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1002:all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who have shone in a wondrous way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1003:Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1004:¡Cuántos de los agasajados con muchos himnos están ya entregados al olvido! ¡Cuántos de los que hicieron esos himnos hace tiempo que están ausentes! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1005:Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1006:finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1007: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1008:It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1009:It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1010:Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1011:And not to think of philosophy as your instructor, but as the sponge and egg white that relieve ophthalmia—as a soothing ointment, a warm lotion. Not ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1012:Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1013:How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1014:I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1015:Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1016:Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1017: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1018:Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1019:Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1020:Ambition,” Marcus Aurelius reminded himself, “means tying your well-being to what other people say or do . . . Sanity means tying it to your own actions. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1021:From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1022:How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1023:Just remember: you can endure anything your mind can make endurable, by treating it as in your interest to do so. In your interest, or in your nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1024:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1025:Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1026:When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1027:An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1028:But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1029:Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1030:It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1031:So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1032:The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves. The unjust person is unjust to themselves—making themselves evil.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.4 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1033:The present moment is the only thing of which anyone can be deprived, at least if this is the only thing he has and he cannot lose what he has not got. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1034:The student as boxer, not fencer. The fencer’s weapon is picked up and put down again. The boxer’s is part of him. All he has to do is clench his fist. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1035:This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1036:Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1037:Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1038:Have I done something for society? Then I have worked for myself, to my own advantage. Let this truth be present to thy mind and labour without ceasing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1039:Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1040:Wherein Antoninus recordeth, What and of whom, whether Parents, Friends, or Masters; by their good examples, or good advice and counsel, he had learned: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1041:Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1042:The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1043:Consider yourself to be dead, and to have completed your life up to the present time; and now live according to nature the remainder which is allowed you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1044:Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; and if it is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1045:It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1046:No obres como quien ha de vivir diez mil años. Lo irreparable está ya suspendido encima de ti. Mientras vives, mientras es aún posible, sé hombre de bien. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1047:So here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1048:The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1049:There is one universe out of all things, one god pervading all things, one substance, one law, one common reason in all intelligent beings, and one truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1050:Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1051:When it allows its action and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and disconnected: even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1052:Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1053:At all times, look at the thing itself—the thing behind the appearance—and unpack it by analysis: cause substance purpose and the length of time it exists. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1054:Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1055:I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1056:It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1057:I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1058:time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1059: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 ... then make that day count! ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1060:As Marcus Aurelius said millennia ago, pain “is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1061:Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1062:Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1063:We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1064:You’ve given aid and they’ve received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1065:I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1066:One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1067:Souviens toi que chacun ne vit que dans le moment présent, dans l'instant. Le reste, c'est le passé ou un obscur avenir. Petite est donc l'étendue de la vie. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1068:Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.38 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1069:The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1070:We must make haste, then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1071:Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1072:If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1073:I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
~ Leo Tolstoy,#NFDB
1074:Im allgemeinen schadet das Böse der Welt nicht, und im einzelnen Falle schadet es nur dem, dem es vergönnt ist, sich frei davon zu machen, sobald er nur will. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1075:Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind—for they can’t be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.41 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1076:Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, "Is this necessary? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1077:Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1078:consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed. Ninth, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1079:I do my duty: other things trouble me not; for they are either things without life, or things without reason, or things that have rambled and know not the way. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1080:In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy. ~ Sharman Apt Russell, #NFDB
1081:It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1082:Precz z książkami! Już nie dawaj się im pociągnąć! Nie wolno! (...) Łaknienie zaś książek precz od siebie rzuć, byś nie umierał wśród narzekań, lecz spokojnie. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1083:Pride is a master of deception: when you think you’re occupied in the weightiest business, that’s when he has you in his spell. (Compare Crates on Xenocrates.) ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1084:(...) you have grown beyond supposing such actions to be either good or bad, and therefore it will be so much the easier to be tolerant of another's blindness. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1085:a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1086:and to be easy and ready to be reconciled, and well pleased again with them that had offended me, as soon as any of them would be content to seek unto me again. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1087:Each of us lives only now, in this brief instant. The rest of our life has been lived already, or is impossible to see because it lies in the unknowable future. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1088:Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1089:It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1090:Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1091:To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1092:When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1093:¡A cuántos Crisipos se ha tragado ya la eternidad, a cuántos Sócrates, a cuántos Epictetos! Que se te ocurra lo mismo ante absolutamente cualquier hombre y cosa. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1094:If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1095:So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1096:The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1097:The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1098:Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1099:When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1100:Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1101:Don’t look at things the way wrong-doers do. Don’t look at things as wrong-doers want you too, either. Instead, strive to see things in truth, as they really are. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1102:Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1103:The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. 21. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1104:The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1105:When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1106: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1107:Inquire of yourself as soon as you wake from sleep, whether it will make any difference to you, if another does what is just and right. It will make no difference. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1108:Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, “I have been harmed.” Take away the complaint, “I have been harmed,” and the harm is taken away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1109:all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1110:Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1111:God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to change
Give me strength to change what I can
And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1112:If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1113:Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures
tranquility. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1114:Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1115:The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the man of understanding in his own actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1116:The others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don't be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and follow Nature - along the road they share. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1117:And so accept everything that happens, even if it is disagreeable, because it leads to this, to the health of the universe and to the prosperity and felicity of Zeus ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1118:Bear in mind that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges, and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1119:Don’t imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1120:If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1121:A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1122:All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1123:El arte de vivir es más parecido al de la lucha que al de la danza en la medida que, ante lo que le cae a uno de improviso, hay que mantenerse preparado y sin caerse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1124:For then thou wilt neither blame those who offend involuntarily, nor wilt thou want their approbation, if thou lookest to the sources of their opinions and appetites. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1125:From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1126:If You are Distressed by Anything External the Pain is not Due to the Thing Itself but to Your Estimate of it. And this You have the Power to Revoke at Any Minute.
~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1127:Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
1128:Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1129:Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1130:Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1131:Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1132:To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1133:We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1134:Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1135:If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1136:Say this to yourself in the morning: Today I shall have to do with meddlers, with the ungrateful, with the insolent, with the crafty, with the envious and the selfish. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1137:The Roman religion was in fact of the nature of a bargain: men paid certain sacrifices and rites, and the gods granted their favour, irrespective of right or wrong. In ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1138:A man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1139:Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1140:For such a man, one who neglects no effort to set himself from now in the ranks of the best, is a priest, a minister of the gods, a friend of Him who dwells within him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1141:There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1142:A branch detached from the contiguous branch must needs be detached from the whole tree: even so man separated even from a single man is detached from the whole society. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1143:Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.’ Marcus Aurelius ~ Wendy Holden, #NFDB
1144:a man when he has done a good act, does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.- ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1145:Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for
this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1146:Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1147:How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1148:Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1149:Habite en ti la serenidad, la ausencia de necesidad de ayuda externa y de la tranquilidad que procuran otros. Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1150:He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1151:I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1152:The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1153:Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1154:• Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever anyone does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1155:2.12 Es propio de la facultad inteligente fijarse en cómo desaparece rápidamente todo, las propias personas en el universo, los recuerdos de esas personas en el tiempo; en ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1156:Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1157:Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1158:Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1159:If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1160:It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1161:It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1162:Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice. 7. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1163:The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1164:To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it up without complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1165:Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1166:If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1167:In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1168:The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is the glorious sky often as desirous to fall upon the earth, which argues a mutual kind of love between them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1169:When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1170:Beautiful things of any kind are beautiful in themselves and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was—no better and no worse. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1171:Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, “Is this necessary? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1172:Nothing that goes on in anyone else’s mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. —Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1173:One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth. MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
1174:Remember what Marcus Aurelius said:
"Accept the things to which life binds you, and love the people with whom life brings you together, but do so with all your heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1175:Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned—to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1176:When you face someone’s insults, hatred, whatever … look at his soul. Get inside him. Look at what sort of person he is. You’ll find you don’t need to strain to impress him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1177:Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1178:XLVI. The ambitious supposeth another man's act, praise and applause, to be his own happiness; the voluptuous his own sense and feeling; but he that is wise, his own action. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1179:Y recuerda que has de tratarles como a hombres, porque son tan humanos como tú y por tanto te resultan tan imprescindibles como la mandíbula inferior lo es para la superior. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1180:All things are linked to each other and there is nothing that has not its relations. All beings are coordinate with each other and all contribute to the harmony of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1181:...because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, is this necessary… ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1182:Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1183:For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1184:...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1185:If a thing is difficult for thee, imagine not therefore! that it is impossible to man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, think that it is accessible to thee also. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1186:If now you choose what is for your spiritual advantage, hold it fast; if what is for your bodily advantage, admit that it is so chosen, and keep your choice with all modesty. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1187:Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1188:None of us have much time. And yet you act as if things were eternal—the way you fear and long for them.… Before long, darkness. And whoever buries you mourned in their turn. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1189:Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1190:Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1191:But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1192:The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1193:Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1194:I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1195:Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1196:The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1197:Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1198:We need to master the art of acquiescence. We need to pay attention to our impulses, making sure they don’t go unmoderated, that they benefit others, that they’re worthy of us. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1199:And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1200:The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1201:The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1202:Tres son las relaciones. Una con el recipiente[388] que nos contiene, otra con la causa divina a partir de la cual suceden a todos todas las cosas y otra con quienes convivimos. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1203:All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. C. S. LEWIS, The Four Loves Life is short. Eternity is long. BENTLEY LITTLE, His Father's Son What we do now echoes in eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1204:Desde el alba hay que decirse con énfasis a uno mismo: me toparé con el entrometido, con el desagradecido, con el soberbio, con el taimado, con el malicioso, el insociable. Todos ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1205:I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1206:Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1207:All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1208:Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1209:Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1210:Today I escaped from the crush of circumstances, or better put, I threw them out, for the crush wasn’t from outside me but in my own assumptions.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.13 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1211: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1212:Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1213:Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1214:Time is like a river. As soon as a thing is seen, it is carried away and another takes its place, and then that other is carried away also. —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS DAVE ~ Jack McDevitt, #NFDB
1215:25. Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1216:Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1217:I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1218:Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1219:There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago. ~ Ray Stannard Baker, #NFDB
1220:Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1221:Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1222:If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” –Marcus Aurelius ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1223:Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1224:Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1225:thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself, What? may not this that now I go about, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1226:Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat
continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and
quieted. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1227:We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.52 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1228:We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1229:Estás viendo qué pocas son las cosas que debe uno dominar para poder vivir una vida próspera y respetuosa con la divinidad, porque los dioses no exigirán nada más al que mantenga esto. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1230:I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1231:...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1232:the term of your time is circumscribed, and that unless you use it to attain calm of mind, time will be gone and you will be gone and the opportunity to use it will not be yours again. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1233:Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1234:Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up to you to be constantly fanning them into new flame. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1235:Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1236:Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1237:Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1238:Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1239:No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1240:Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1241:Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good, when by it thou art hindered from some other better work. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1242:Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1243:Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1244:If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
1245:nor does he deviate from the way which leads to the end of life, to which a man ought to come pure, tranquil, ready to depart, and without any compulsion perfectly reconciled to his lot. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1246:The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1247:Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1248:When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1249:And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1250:Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1251:Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1252:Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1253:From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1254:It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained." ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1255:Jos jokin tuntuu sinusta vaikealta, niin älä ajattele, että ihminen ei voi sitä kestää. Jos sen sijaan jokin on mahdollista ihmisen suorittaa, niin arvele voivasi itsekin siitä selviytyä. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1256:Remember, however, that you are formed by nature to bear everything whose tolerability depends on your own opinion to make it so, by thinking that it is in your interest or duty to do so. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1257:Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1258: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1259:When the object perishes, the pneuma that animated it is reabsorbed into the logos as a whole. This process of destruction and reintegration happens to individual objects at every moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1260:As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1261:Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1262:From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is the sort of thing on which one should spend lavishly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1263:I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1264:Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1265:The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.61 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1266:Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1267:Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1268:Expect change. Accept death. Enjoy life. As Marcus Aurelius explained, the brains that got you through the troubles you have had so far will get you through any troubles yet to come. ~ Jennifer Michael Hecht, #NFDB
1269:In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1270:Marcus Aurelius is doubtful about immortality, but says, as a Christian might: 'Since it is possible that thou mayst depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1271:Neither must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1272:Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1273:Remember that our efforts are subject to circumstances; you weren’t aiming to do the impossible. —Aiming to do what, then? To try. And you succeeded. What you set out to do is accomplished. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1274:Similarly, man is born for deeds of kindness; and when he has done a kindly action, or otherwise served the common welfare, he has done what he was made for, and has received his quittance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1275:Što god itko učini ili kaže, ja moram biti dobar čovjek. Kao da smaragd, ili zlato, ili purpur, neprekidno govore: ''Što god itko učini ili kaže, moram biti smaragd i očuvati vlastitu boju. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1276:That you don’t know for sure it is a mistake. A lot of things are means to some other end. You have to know an awful lot before you can judge other people’s actions with real understanding. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1277:The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it—and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1278: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1279:Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1280:Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1281:Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave us kindness. And other qualities to balance other flaws. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1282:But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful—and hence neither good nor bad. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1283:Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed, ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1284:Does another do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I now have what the universal nature wills me to have; and I do what my nature now wills me to do. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1285:From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1286:Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1287:Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1288:Whatever may happen to you, it was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being, and of that which is incident to it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1289:What makes for a worthy goal? Not to chase things that are popularly considered good, like pleasures and fame, but to live according to your nature, following reason and benefitting society. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1290:Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1291:I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1292:When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better group of harmony if you keep on going back to it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1293:A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1294:Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1295:From my grandfather's father, [I learned] to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1296:Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1297:55. The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it—and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1298:Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1299:Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it’s unendurable … then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1300:He who loves fame considers another man’s activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good. It ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1301:In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1302:Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1303:-Moja loša sreća kriva je što me to snašlo.-Ne, radije reci: Moja je sreća, što, iako me to snašlo, mogu sve to otrpjeti bez patnje, da me sadašnjica ne zdrobi, i da ne strepim pred budućnošću. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1304: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1305:Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1306:Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1307:With respect to pain, then, and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the universal nature employs equally, whoever is not equally affected is manifestly acting impiously. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1308:If some one tells you that so and so speaks ill of you, do not defend yourself against what he says, but answer, 'He did not know my other faults, or he would not have mentioned these alone.' It ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1309:It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1310:That way you'll see human life for what it is. Smoke. Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter they cease to exist through all the endless years to come. Then why such turmoil? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1311:To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1312:I am unhappy, because this has happened to me.” Not so: say, “I am happy, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1313: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1314:Moreover, to endure labour; nor to need many things; when I have anything to do, to do it myself rather than by others; not to meddle with many businesses; and not easily to admit of any slander. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1315:the Stoics had always approved of participation in public life, and this stand struck a chord with the Roman aristocracy, whose code of values placed a premium on political and military activity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1316: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1317:If you suffer distress because of some external cause, it is not the thing itself that troubles you but your judgement about it, and it is within your power to cancel that judgement at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1318:In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1319:No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1320:no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1321:The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1322:They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1323:A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1324:Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1325:That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1326:30. A philosopher without clothes and one without books. “I have nothing to eat,” says he, as he stands there half-naked, “but I subsist on the logos.” And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1327:He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1328:If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do; ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1329:I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1330:Thus thou must use to keep thyself to the first motions and apprehensions of things, as they present themselves outwardly; and add not unto them from within thyself through mere conceit and opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1331:There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
1332:to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a stranger’s sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1333:Another does wrong. What is that to me? Let him look to it; he has his own disposition, his own activity. I have now what Universal Nature wills me to have, and I do what my own nature wills me to do. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1334:Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1335:External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who’s stopping you from setting your mind straight? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1336:If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47 ~ Ward Farnsworth, #NFDB
1337:If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1338:Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small—small ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1339:Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need. — MARCUS AURELIUS Overcoming ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1340:Thou canst live without constraint in profoundest peace of heart, even if all men clamoured against thee what they will, even if wild beasts tore the members of this nature in which thou art enveloped. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1341:Thou must also take heed of another kind of wandering, for they are idle in their actions, who toil and labour in this life, and have no certain scope to which to direct all their motions, and desires. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1342:Which then is the cultivated and instructed soul? The one which knows the principle, end and reason diffused in all being and through all eternity and governing the whole by regular revolutions. ~ Marcus Aurelius. V. 32, #NFDB
1343:Whoever prefers to all else his reason, does not enact tragedy, does not bewail himself, seeks neither solitude nor the crowd, but, greatest of all goods, he shall live without desire and without fear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1344: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1345:All that comes to pass is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring, and the grape in summer. Of like fashion are sickness, death, calumny, intrigue, and all that gladdens or saddens the foolish. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1346:Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1347:When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. —MARCUS AURELIUS A ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1348:73. When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1349:And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1350:Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1351:Not to know what the world is is to be ignorant of where you are. Not to know why it’s here is to be ignorant of who you are. And what it is. Not to know any of this is to be ignorant of why you’re here. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1352:Time is a flood, an impetuous torrent which drags with it all that is born. A thing has scarcely appeared when it is carried away; another has already passed; and this other will soon fall into the gulf. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1353:Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1354:What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1355:Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1356:Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1357:Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1358:Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1359:But death and life, honor and dishonor, pain and pleasure—all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1360:Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1361: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1362:Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1363:My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1364:When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1365:14. Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1366: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1367:How does your ruling reason manage itself? For in that is the key to everything. Whatever else remains, be it in the power of your choice or not, is but a corpse and smoke.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.33 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1368:Mihin tahansa kyllästyisinkin, niin aina pysyn onnellisena, sillä onnellinen on se, joka pystyy luomaan itselleen onnellisen kohtalon. Onnellinen kohtalo taas on hyvä mieliala, hyvät taipumukset, hyvät teot. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1369:no ser tramposo, tener nobleza, aguantar los trabajos, despreciar los placeres, no quejarse de tu destino, necesitar poco, la buena disposición, la liberalidad, la sencillez, no ser charlatán, la grandeza. ¿ ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1370:One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1371:The Stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion, and the Epicureans to freedom from all disturbance; yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, the other for unbridled licence. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1372:De multe ori am fost uimit de faptul ca fiecare, desi se iubeste pe sine insusi mai mult decat pe toti ceilalti, pune totusi mai putin pret pe propria parere despre sine decat pe parerea celorlalti despre el. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1373:Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: • to accept this event with humility • to treat this person as he should be treated • to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1374:Indeed, the application of the adjective “stoic” to a person who shows strength and courage in misfortune probably owes more to the aristocratic Roman value system than it does to Greek philosophers. Stoicism ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1375:A very ridiculous thing it is, that any man should dispense with vice and wickedness in himself, which is in his power to restrain; and should go about to suppress it in others, which is altogether impossible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1376:Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1377:There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1378:Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1379:To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1380:And the great emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1381:Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1382:Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1383:The Way Through Them Objective judgment, now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1384:Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the whole; and everything formal (causal) is very soon taken back into the universal reason; and the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1385:He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1386:If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1387:In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1388:In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1389:it will help you a great deal to keep the gods in mind as well. What they want is not flattery, but for rational things to be like them. For figs to do what figs were meant to do—and dogs, and bees … and people. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1390:You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1391:Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1392:He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1393:If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1394:Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1395:Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1396:Por lo demás, todo lo que es bello en cierto modo, bello es por sí mismo, y termina en sí mísmo sin considerar el elogio como parte de sí mismo. En consecuencia, ni se empeora ni se mejora el objeto que se alaba. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1397:The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1398:B.C.)—Stoicism stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty despite the apparent chaos of the external world by emulating in one’s personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1399:If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1400:No hay que censurar a los dioses porque no yerran en nada, ni contra su voluntad ni a propósito. Tampoco a los hombres, porque en nada yerran si no es contra su voluntad. En conclusión no hay que censurar a nadie. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1401:that there is but a certain limit of time appointed unto thee, which if thou shalt not make use of to calm and allay the many distempers of thy soul, it will pass away and thou with it, and never after return. II. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1402:There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1403:The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1404:Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry? It is no new thing; it is not the first, nor shall it be the last, if thou live long. At best suffer patiently, if thou canst not suffer joyously. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1405:Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1406:Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1407:How free from all vanity he carried himself in matter of honour and dignity, (as they are esteemed:) his laboriousness and assiduity, his readiness to hear any man, that had aught to say tending to any common good: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1408:Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1409:The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1410:This then remains: Remember to retire into this little territory of thy own, and, above all, do not distract or strain thyself, but be free, at look and things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1411:When the longest- and shortest-lived of us dies their loss is precisely equal. For the sole thing of which any of us can be deprived is the present, since this is all we own, and nobody can lose what is not theirs. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1412:Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1413:If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1414:IV. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1415:Nothing is so productive of greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and truthfully each thing we encounter in life, and to see these things in such a way as to comprehend the nature of the Cosmos. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1416:Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1417:Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1418:To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1419:A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1420:And why is it so hard when things go against you? If it’s imposed by nature, accept it gladly and stop fighting it. And if not, work out what your own nature requires, and aim at that, even if it brings you no glory. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1421:Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1422:Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1423:Regard behind thee the abyss of duration and in front that other infinity of the ages to come. What difference is there is in this immensity between one who has lived three days and one who has lived three human ages? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1424:to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1425:Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1426:If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1427:Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1428:things?—I was once a fortunate man, but I lost it, I know not how.—But fortunate means that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune: and a good fortune is good disposition of the soul, good emotions, good actions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1429:To change your experience, change your opinion. If you’re upset by something outside you, it’s not the thing itself that upsets you, but your opinion of it. And it’s in your power to wipe away that opinion immediately. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1430:Truly, man has no retreat more tranquil and less troubled than that which he finds in his own soul, especially if he carries in it those truths to which it is enough to turn to acquire in a moment an absolute quietude. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1431:We should always try to find those things which do not separate us from other people but which unite us. To work against each other, to be angry and turn your back on each other, is to work against nature. —MARCUS AURELIUS ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1432:And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1433:But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1434:Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1435:From Rusticus … I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 1.7.3 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1436:If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1437:If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1438:Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1439: ‘If his mind is filled with nobility, with a grasp of all time, all existence, do you think our human life will mean much to him at all?’ “ ‘How could it?’ he said. “ ‘Or death be very frightening?’ “ ‘Not in the least. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1440:In materialistic terms, Marcus Aurelius might have been right in saying that “a man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions,” but perhaps he overlooked the fact that a man’s worth does not equal his well-being. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB
1441:Menjalani kehidupan setiap harinya seolah - olah hari itu adalah hari terakhir, tidak pernah mengalami kebingungan, tidak pernah bersikap apatis, tidak pernah latah untuk ikut - ikutan, itu semua adalah karakter sempurna ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1442:Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1443:Our task is this: to play our role to the best of our ability, then depart in contentment and gratitude, praying only that that the Playwright is pleased with our performance. Have you read the first book in this series? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1444:The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1445:The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1446:thou wilt cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1447:When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1448:Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1449:Contempla il corso degli astri52 immaginando di ruotare con loro e pensa come gli elementi si trasformano continuamente gli uni negli altri. Il pensiero di queste cose, infatti, purifica dalle brutture della vita terrena. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1450:It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1451:Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1452:People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1453:The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.' ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1454:The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1455:When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1456:They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1457: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. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1458:From Rusticus . . . I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly with those who have a lot to say about something.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 1.7.3 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1459:If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1460:tanto el que goza de un tiempo más largo como el que ha de morir rápidamente deja atrás lo mismo, porque sólo es el presente de lo que va a verse privado, si es eso lo único que tiene y si uno no deja atrás lo que no tiene. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1461:That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1462:When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1463:Yes. This will be a drama in three acts, the length fixed by the power that directed your creation, and now directs your dissolution. Neither was yours to determine. So make your exit with grace—the same grace shown to you. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1464:You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1465:If thou hast seen an amputated hand or foot or a severed head lying separated from the rest of the body, even such he makes himself, as far as it is in him, who isolates himself from the All and acts against the common good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1466:Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1467:Remember, however, that thou art formed by nature to bear everything, with respect to which it depends on thy own opinion to make it endurable and tolerable, by thinking that it is either thy interest or thy duty to do this. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1468:The pomps and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he did his work well. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1469:Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1470:Finally, therefore, remember your retreat into this little domain which is yourself, and above all be not disturbed nor on the rack, but be free and look at things as a man, a human being, a citizen, a creature that must die. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1471:It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1472:That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not". ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1473:Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1474:Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business to do thy duty like a soldier in the assault on a town. How then, if being lame thou canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another it is possible? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1475:People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1476: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.
Marcus Aurelius ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1477:For the entire earth is but a point, and the place of your own habitation but a minute corner in it. (...) Remember then to withdraw into the little field of self. Above all, never struggle or strain; but be master of yourself. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1478:The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1479:Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1480:You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1481:Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1482:When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1483:Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1484:He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates himself from the reason of our common nature through being displeased with the things that happen; for the same nature that produces these things has produced you, too: ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1485:Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1486:Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1487:Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power. Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay. Any ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1488:In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.51 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1489:It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. What’s in my thoughts at this moment? Fear? Jealousy? Desire? Feelings like that? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1490:Let no one have the chance to accuse you, with any truth, of not being sincere or a good man. Make sure that anyone taking that view of you is a liar. This is wholly up to you -- who is there to prevent you being good and sincere? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1491:Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them. Think constantly on the changes of the elements into each other, for such thoughts wash away the dust of earthly life.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.47 ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1492:What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child’s soul, an adolescent’s, a woman’s? A tyrant’s soul? The soul of a predator—or its prey? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1493:Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1494:All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1495:Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1496:I kakvu si ti to štetu pretrpio? Otkrit ćeš kako nitko od onih koji ti bude gnjev nije učinio ništa čime bi ti pogoršao um; samo je u tvojim mislima moguće tebi nanijeti kakvu štetu ili bol - one ne poznaju nikakva druga postojanja. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1497:Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1498:Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1499:Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1500:And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. 6. Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events. That’s all you need. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
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His last period was Stoic practise, for so zealously did he practise austerities that his death was, at1281 least, hastened thereby.446 It is unlikely that he would have followed Stoic precepts without some sympathy for, or acquaintance with their philosophical doctrines; and as we saw above, Porphyry acknowledges Plotinos's writings contain hidden Stoic pieces.447 Then, Plotinos spent the last period of his life in Rome, where ruled, in philosophical circles, the traditions of Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.
That these Stoic practices became fatal to him is significant when we remember that this occurred during the final absence of Porphyry, who may, during his presence, have exerted a friendly restraint on the zealous master. At any rate, it was during Porphyry's regime that the chief works of Plotinos were written, including a bitter diatribe against the Gnostics, who remained the chief protagonists of dualism and belief in positive evil. Prophyry's work, "De Abstinentia," proves clearly enough his Stoic sympathies.
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20 A Stoic confutation of Epicurus and the Gnostics. As soon as Porphyry has left him, Plotinos harks back to Amelius, on whose leaving he had written against the Gnostics. He also returns to Numenian thoughts. Bouillet notices that here Plotinos founded himself on Chrysippus, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus, and was followed by Nemesius. This new foundation enabled him to assume a rather independent attitude. Against Plato, he taught that matter derived existence from God, and that the union of the soul and body is not necessarily evil. Against Aristotle, he taught that God is not only the final, but also the efficient cause of the universe. Against the Stoics, he taught that the human soul is free, and is a cause, independent of the World Soul from which she proceeded. Against the Gnostics, he insisted that the creator is good, the world is the best possible, and Providence extends to mundane affairs. Against the Manicheans, he taught that the evil is not positive, but negative, and is no efficient cause, so that there is no dualism.
21 Diog. Laert. x. 133.
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53 Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts, xi. 18.
54 As thought Cicero, de Nat. Deor. iii. 63. 64.
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56 According to Plato, in the Sophist and Protagoras, and the Stoics, as in Marcus Aurelius. Meditations, vii. 63.
57 As did the writer of Revelation, iv. 6.
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72 Marcus Aurelius, Medit. ii. 13.
73 As thought Marcus Aurelius, in his Thoughts, xii. 42.
74 See iv. 3.24.
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77 Marcus Aurelius, Medit. vii. 9; Seneca, Epist. 94.
78 Numenius, iii. 7.
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21) Look within thee; within thee is the source of all good and a source inexhaustible provided thou dig in it unceasingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius VII. 59
22) Contemplate the mirror of thy heart and thou shalt taste little by little a pure joy and unmixed peace. ~ Sadi, "Bostan"
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34) O my soul, wilt thou be one day simple, one, bare, more visible than the body which envelops thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius. X.I
The Aspiration Towards Truth View Similar A Question from Europe on Difficulty
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7) Not only to unite oneself by the breath to the air in which we live, but henceforth to unite oneself by thought to the Intelligence in which all lives. For intelligent Power is no less diffused everywhere and is no less communicated to whoever can brea the it. ~ Marcus Aurelius VIII. 54
8) You tell me that even in Europe educated men become mad by thinking constantly of one subject. But how is it possible to lose one's intelligence and become mad by thinking of that Intelligence by which the whole world is made intelligent? ~ Ramakrishna
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41) Which then is the cultivated and instructed soul? The one which knows the principle, end and reason diffused in all being and through all eternity and governing the whole by regular revolutions. ~ Marcus Aurelius. V. 32
42) Such is the science of the Intelligence, to contemplate things divine and comprehend God. ~ Hermes 1. "The Character"
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14) Thou hast always a refuge in thyself...There be free and look at all things with a fearless eye. ~ Marcus Aurelius
15) Confidence in help from outside brings with it distress. Only self-confidence gives force and joy. ~ Fo-tho-hing-tsang-king
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3) Matter is like a stream in perpetual flow; the actions of Nature manifest by continual mutations and endless transformations. There is hardly anything that is stable. Behold near thee this immense abyss of the times that no longer are and the future in which all things will disappear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
4)All is movement and nothing is fixed; we cannot cross over the same stream twice. ~ Heraclitus
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1) Look within things. ~ Marcus Aurelius
2) Let us attach ourselves to a solid good, to a good that shines within and not externally. Let us devote all our efforts to its discovery. ~ Seneca
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7) It is no use being in a rage against things, that makes no difference to them. ~ Marcus Aurelius
8) When we can draw from ourselves all our felicity, we find nothing vexatious to us in the order of Nature. ~ Cicero
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10) Truly, man has no retreat more tranquil and less troubled than that which he finds in his own soul, especially if he carries in it those truths to which it is enough to turn to acquire in a moment an absolute quietude. ~ Marcus Aurelius
11) The mind which studies is not disquieted. ~ Lao-tse
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23) Thou canst live without constraint in profoundest peace of heart, even if all men clamoured against thee what they will, even if wild beasts tore the members of this nature in which thou art enveloped. ~ Marcus Aurelius
24) When the water of the fetid pool and the glorious Ganges shall appear to thy eyes as one, when the Sound of the flute and the clamour of this crowd shall have no longer any difference to thy ear, then shalt thou attain to the divine Wisdom, ~ Ramakrishna
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4) If a thing is difficult for thee, imagine not therefore! that it is impossible to man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, think that it is accessible to thee also. ~ Marcus Aurelius
5) Many say with an appearance of humility, "I am even as an earthworm crawling in the dust..."; so always believing themselves to be earthworms, they become in time feeble as the worm. Let not discouragement enter into thy heart; despair is for all the great enemy of our progress. What a man thinks himself to be, that he in fact becomes. ~ Ramakrishna
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22) For such a man, one who neglects no effort to set himself from now in the ranks of the best, is a priest, a minister of the gods, a friend of Him who dwells within him. ~ Marcus Aurelius
The Lower Triple Purusha View Similar The Psychology of Social Development - XII
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18) The man who has done good does not cry it through the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius
19) So long as a man has a little knowledge, he goes everywhere reading and preaching; but when the perfect knowledge has been attained, one ceases from vain ostentation. ~ Ramakrishna
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12) Whoever prefers to all else his reason, does not enact tragedy, does not bewail himself, seeks neither solitude nor the crowd, but, greatest of all goods, he shall live without desire and without fear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
13) When his thought and feeling are perfectly under regulation and stand firm in his Self, then, unmoved to longing by any desire, he is said to be in union with the Self. ~ Bhagavad Gita VI.18
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22) Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius
23) If thou wouldst be free, accustom thyself to curb thy desires. ~ Tolstoi
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27) So live as if thou hadst at once to say farewell to life and the time yet accorded thee were an unexpected gift. ~ Marcus Aurelius
28) Eternity is for all time, but the world only for a moment. Sell not then for that moment thy kingdom of eternity. ~ Omar Khayyam
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14) That which distinguishes from others the upright man, is that he never pollutes the genius within him which dwells in his heart. ~ Marcus Aurelius
15) If to thee nothing appears superior to the Genius which dwells in thee and has made itself master of his own tendencies and watches over his own thoughts and if beside him thoufindest that all the rest is petty and of no worth, then to no other thing give lodging. ~ Marcus Aurelius
16) Neglect not the gift that is in thee. ~ I. Timothy. IV. 14
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16) Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius
17) Thyself vindicate thyself. ~ Seneca
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6) Regard behind thee the abyss of duration and in front that other infinity of the ages to come. What difference is there is in this immensity between one who has lived three days and one who has lived three human ages? ~ Marcus Aurelius
7) As a ripe fruit is at every moment in peril of detaching itself from the branch, so every creature born lives under a perpetual menace of death. ~ Buddhist Texts
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12) Time is a flood, an impetuous torrent which drags with it all that is born. A thing has scarcely appeared when it is carried away; another has already passed; and this other will soon fall into the gulf. ~ Marcus Aurelius
13) Nature wills that each thing after its fulfilment shall disappear; it is for this that everything ages and dies. ~ Apollonius of Tyana
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3) Can it be that change terrifies thee? But nothing is done without it. ~ Marcus Aurelius
4) Await with calm the moment of extinction or perhaps of displacement. ~ Marcus Aurelius
5) Restore to heaven and earth that which thou owest unto them...But of this dead man there is a portion that is immortal. ~ Rig Veda
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2) To represent constantly the world as one single being with one single soul and one single substance. ~ Marcus Aurelius
3) This world is a republic all whose citizens are made of one and the same substance. ~ Epictetus
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1) All things are linked to each other and there is nothing that has not its relations. All beings are coordinate with each other and all contri bute to the harmony of the world. ~ Marcus Aurelius
2) And all things depend one on the other and all are bound to each other...all is that Ancient One and nothing is separate from him. ~ Zohar
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19) See unceasingly the enchainment, the mutual solidarity of all things and all beings ~ Marcus Aurelius
20) Even if thou wouldst, thou couldst not separate thy life from the life of humanity. Thou livest in humanity and by it and for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius
21) Thou art man thou art a citizen of the world, thou art the son of God, thou art the brother of all men. ~ Marcus Aurelius
The Gradations of the Supermind View Similar Parasara's Hymns to the Lord of the Flame - VI
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49) To enter into the soul of each and allow each to enter into thine. ~ Marcus Aurelius
50) All beings aspire to happiness, therefore envelop all in thy love. ~ Mahavantara
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1) Whatever is not of use to the swarm, is not of use to the bee. ~ Marcus Aurelius
2) The duty of man is to be useful to men: to a great number if he can, if not, to a small number, otherwise to his neighbours, otherwise to himself : in making himself useful to himself, he works for others. As the vicious man injures not only himself but also those to whom he might have been useful if he had been virtuous, likewise in labouring for oneself one labours also for others, since there is formed a man who can be of use to them. ~ Seneca
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13) Thou who hast been set in thy station of man to aid by all means the common interest ~ Marcus Aurelius
14) Tire not being useful to thyself by being useful to others. ~ Marcus Aurelius
15) Think not that when the sins of thy gross form are overcome, thy duty is over to nature and to other men. ~ Book of Golden Precepts
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17) Be not ashamed to be helped: thy end is to accomplish that which is incumbent on thee, like a soldier in the assault. ~ Marcus Aurelius
18) Never get done by others what thou canst thyself do. ~ Tolstoy
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21) As thou thyself art a complement of the organism of the city, let thy action likewise he a complement of the life of the city. If each of thy actions has not a relation direct or remote to the common end, it breaks the social life, it no longer allows it to be one, it is factious like the citizen who amid the people separates himself as much as it is in him from the common accord. ~ Marcus Aurelius
22) If thou hast seen an amputated hand or foot or a severed head lying separated from the rest of the body, even such he makes himself, as far as it is in him, who isolates himself from the All and acts against the common good. ~ Marcus Aurelius
23) What then is the duty of the citizen? Never to consider his particular interest, never to calculate as if he were an isolated individual. ~ Epictetus
24) An off-cast from the city is he who tears his soul away from the soul of reasoning beings, which is one. ~ Marcus Aurelius
25) A branch detached from the contiguous branch must needs be detached from the whole tree: even so man separated even from a single man is detached from the whole society. ~ Marcus Aurelius
26) Have I done something for society? Then I have worked for myself, to my own advantage. Let this truth be present to thy mind and labour without ceasing. ~ Marcus Aurelius
27) We shall labour to our last sigh, we shall never cease from contri buting to the common good, serving every individual, helping even our enemies, exercising our talents and our industry. We know not an age destined to repose and, like the heroes of whom Virgil tells, our hair grows white under the helmet. ~ Seneca
--- Overview of noun marcus_aurelius
The noun marcus aurelius has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Annius Verus ::: (Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180))
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun marcus_aurelius
1 sense of marcus aurelius
Sense 1
Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Annius Verus
INSTANCE OF=> Roman Emperor, Emperor of Rome
=> emperor
=> sovereign, crowned head, monarch
=> ruler, swayer
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> head of state, chief of state
=> representative
=> negotiator, negotiant, treater
=> communicator
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun marcus_aurelius
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun marcus_aurelius
1 sense of marcus aurelius
Sense 1
Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Annius Verus
INSTANCE OF=> Roman Emperor, Emperor of Rome
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun marcus_aurelius
1 sense of marcus aurelius
Sense 1
Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Annius Verus
-> Roman Emperor, Emperor of Rome
HAS INSTANCE=> Antoninus, Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Annius Verus
HAS INSTANCE=> Antonius Pius
HAS INSTANCE=> Augustus, Gaius Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian
HAS INSTANCE=> Caligula, Gaius, Gaius Caesar
HAS INSTANCE=> Claudius, Claudius I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus
HAS INSTANCE=> Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus
HAS INSTANCE=> Decius
HAS INSTANCE=> Diocletian, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletian
HAS INSTANCE=> Domitian, Titus Flavius Domitianus
HAS INSTANCE=> Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus, Adrian
HAS INSTANCE=> Julian, Julian the Apostate, Flavius Claudius Julianus
HAS INSTANCE=> Maximian, Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, Herculius
HAS INSTANCE=> Nero, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
HAS INSTANCE=> Nerva, Marcus Cocceius Nerva
HAS INSTANCE=> Theodosius, Theodosius I, Theodosius the Great, Flavius Theodosius
HAS INSTANCE=> Tiberius, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus
HAS INSTANCE=> Titus, Titus Vespasianus Augustus, Titus Flavius Vespasianus
HAS INSTANCE=> Trajan, Marcus Ulpius Traianus
HAS INSTANCE=> Vespasian, Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus
--- Grep of noun marcus_aurelius
marcus aurelius
marcus aurelius antoninus
marcus aurelius valerius maximianus
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