Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSBe like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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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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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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