Marcus Aurelius on harm
Marcus Aurelius96 quotes“It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.”
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius 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 AureliusMarcus Aurelius The best revenge is not to do as they do.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius 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.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
ChanakyaChanakya No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Francis of AssisiFrancis of Assisi One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Eric HofferEric Hoffer Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman It’s always been hard for me to walk away from people I love when I’ve grown to become reliant on even some of their most harmful traits.
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