The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
MARCUS AURELIUSHumans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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