| ID | Title | Subtitle | Content | Category | Views | Likes | Dislikes |
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| 576 | — | — | Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. |
Marcus Aurelius | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 577 | — | — | Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all. |
Marcus Aurelius | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 578 | — | — | About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. |
Marcus Aurelius | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| 579 | — | — | From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil. |
Marcus Aurelius | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| 580 | — | — | From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused. |
Marcus Aurelius | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| 581 | — | — | It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. |
Marcus Aurelius | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 582 | — | — | It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it. |
Marcus Aurelius | 14 | 9 | 0 |
| 583 | — | — | For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness [of deserting his post]. |
Marcus Aurelius | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 584 | — | — | Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life. |
Marcus Aurelius | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 585 | — | — | This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. |
Marcus Aurelius | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| 586 | — | — | Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. |
Marcus Aurelius | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 587 | — | — | Another may be more expert in casting [throwing] his opponent; but he is not more social, nor more modest, nor better disciplined to meet all that happens, nor more considerate with respect to the faults of his neighbors. |
Marcus Aurelius | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| 588 | — | — | Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined. |
Marcus Aurelius | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 589 | — | — | Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another. |
Marcus Aurelius | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| 590 | — | — | Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. |
Marcus Aurelius | 11 | 10 | 0 |
| 591 | — | — | Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? |
Marcus Aurelius | 11 | 7 | 0 |
| 592 | — | — | Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of things which happen to thee? for then thou wilt use them well, and they will be material for thee. Only attend to thyself, and resolve to be a good man in every act which thou doest; and remember... |
Marcus Aurelius | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 593 | — | — | Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. |
Marcus Aurelius | 10 | 6 | 0 |
| 594 | — | — | The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected. |
Marcus Aurelius | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 595 | — | — | In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination... |
Marcus Aurelius | 10 | 8 | 0 |
| 596 | — | — | Very little is needed to make a happy life. |
Marcus Aurelius | 9 | 7 | 0 |
| 597 | — | — | To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character. |
Marcus Aurelius | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| 598 | — | — | The nature of the All moved to make the universe. |
Marcus Aurelius | 12 | 5 | 0 |
| 599 | — | — | A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. |
Marcus Aurelius | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 600 | — | — | On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone. |
Marcus Aurelius | 8 | 8 | 0 |