Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Attitude Disappear Injury One Liner Perception Rejection
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Born Fortune Misfortune Noble
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Attitude Imitation Revenge
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.
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Escape Finding Insane Life Majority Object Oneself
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Break Inspirational Stand Water
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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Body Delusion Dreams Fame River Strange Stream
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Astonished Happen Life Man Ridiculous
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.
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Death Desire Flesh Impression Mind Puppet Release Service
No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Future Healing Lost One Liner Past Present
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Except Life Moments One Liner Reason
Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Except Life Moments One Liner Reason
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Appearance Beneath Escape Quality Surface Truth Value
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS

Appearance Beneath Escape Quality Surface Truth Value
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Enjoyment Inspirational Life Love Morning Privilege Thinking
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.
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Breathe Enjoyment Inspirational Love Morning Precious Privelege Thinking
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Dig Goodness Inspirational Ready Success
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.
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Disturb Healing Judgement Overcome Pain Power Wipe
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.
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Goals Moral Priorties Soul Sun Window
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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Chacater Death Life Perfection Strength
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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Change Empire Fall Future Past Philosophy Rose Spiritual
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Appearance Reason Truth Wonderful
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Compare Embrace Music Prayer Sex
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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Life Live Lose Reality
When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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Feeling Human Men Take Care
What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Echos Eternity One Liner
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Change Life One Liner Thinking Universe
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Beautiful Law Modesty Need Truth

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