Marcus Aurelius

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Biography : Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) is a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. He ruled from 161 to 180 AD and is best known for his Meditations, a collection of aphorisms and brief reflections on duty, death, and the conduct of the wise person in the face of human errors and weaknesses.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
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Marcus Aurelius - Quotes

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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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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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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