Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
Source: Ta eis heauton V, 16 -
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Confine yourself to the present
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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