Quotes

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551

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Marcus Aurelius 5 0 0
552

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius 3 1 0
553

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Marcus Aurelius 6 5 0
554

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius 8 5 0
555

Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius 7 4 0
556

Take heed not to be transformed into a Caesar, not to be dipped in the purple dye, for it does happen. Keep yourself therefore, simple, good, pure, grave, unaffected, the friend of justice, religious, kind, affectionate, strong for your proper work. Wrestle to be the man philosophy wished to make you. Reverence the gods, save men. Life is brief; there is but one harvest of earthly existence, a holy disposition and neighborly acts.

Marcus Aurelius 9 5 0
557

I consist of a little body and a soul.

Marcus Aurelius 3 3 0
558

Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Marcus Aurelius 6 5 0
559

But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.

Marcus Aurelius 7 5 0
560

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius 6 5 0
561

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Marcus Aurelius 4 2 0
562

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius 4 4 0
563

How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!

Marcus Aurelius 11 4 0
564

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius 9 8 0
565

All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other things. For things have been co-ordinated, and they combine to make up the same universe. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one god who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, and one reason.

Marcus Aurelius 4 3 0
566

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Marcus Aurelius 6 3 0
567

Be thou erect, or be made erect.

Marcus Aurelius 7 4 0
568

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

Marcus Aurelius 6 5 0
569

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Marcus Aurelius 4 4 0
570

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius 5 2 0
571

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of there substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may ever be new.

Marcus Aurelius 11 8 0
572

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Marcus Aurelius 6 1 0
573

Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.

Marcus Aurelius 6 3 0
574

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

Marcus Aurelius 4 1 0
575

Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

Marcus Aurelius 9 4 0