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Marcus Aurelius Quotes

«Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.»
«Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Poverty
«The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp streaked with pigment, who is digging in his big mouth with a toothpick, is a fraud, Aefulanus, He has no teeth»
«Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished»
«Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're quite decent chap - Well 'tis a feather in your cap»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: caps, chaps, damaged, feather, lame
«Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be more suitable for our ears»
«There is often a sin of omission as well as of commission»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: omission, omissions
«Surrender your life serenely, as serenely as the One who takes it from you»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: serenely
«Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses»
«Since you are so well matched, and so much alike - a very bad wife, and a very bad husband - I wonder that you do not agree»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: matched, well-matched