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Marcus Aurelius Quotes

«Men exist for the sake of one another.»
«Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.»
«Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: strings
«What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: Dissolves
«Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: lightly
«Varus did lately me to supper call, The table sumptuous was, the supper small; Loaden it was with weight of gold, not meat; Much to be seen was served, little to eat; Varus, our mouths not our eyes, to feast we're here; Take hence thy plate, or fil»
«The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most keen, To have it thus most disappoint»
«It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Vice | Keywords: vicious
«Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret about living so many years only, instead of more? Since you are content with the measure of substance allowed you, be so also with the measure of time»
«Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud»