A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
MARCUS AURELIUSA man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSI was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
MARCUS AURELIUSLife is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUSNeither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
MARCUS AURELIUSYour 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 AURELIUSLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
MARCUS AURELIUSReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one can lose either the past or the future.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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