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Marcus Aurelius Quotes

«Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Reading | Keywords: everlasting, lazy, readers
«Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.»
«Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: implication
«Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.»
«Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: ruling
«Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.»
«'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'»
«When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: bethink, momentary
«The act of dying is one of the acts of life.»
«Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: narrowly