Quotes of Marcus - somelinesforyou

“ The best answer to anger is silence. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Receive without conceit, release without struggle. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Be content to seem what you really are. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Character and self-control. ”

- Unknown

“ Integrity and manliness. ”

- Unknown

“ Do you have reason? I have. ”

- Unknown

“ To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. ”

- Unknown

“ Not to waste time on nonsense. ”

- Unknown

“ People who are physically ill are unhappy with a doctor who doesn’t give them advice, because they think he has given up on them. ”

- Unknown

“ From my brother Severus to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice. ”

- Unknown

“ To show intuitive sympathy for friends, tolerance to amateurs and sloppy thinkers. ”

- Unknown

“ From Sextus to tolerate ignorant persons, and those who form opinions without consideration. ”

- Unknown

“ To have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. ”

- Unknown

“ What is your art? To be good. ”

- Unknown

“ Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. ”

- Unknown

“ Death is necessary and cannot be avoided. ”

- Unknown

“ Show me someone untroubled with disturbing thoughts about illness, danger, death, exile or loss of reputation. ”

- Unknown

“ If they’ve injured you, then they’re the ones who suffer for it. ”

- Unknown

“ How small a part of the boundless and unfathomable time is assigned to every man! For it is very soon swallowed up in the eternal. ”

- Unknown

“ Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than mixture and dispersion. ”

- Unknown

“ Show me one person who cares how they act, someone for whom success is less important than the manner in which it is achieved. ”

- Unknown

“ To investigate and analyze, with understanding and logic, the principles we ought to live by. ”

- Unknown

“ You ought to realize, you take up very little space in the world as a whole – your body, that is; in reason, however, you yield to no one, not even to the gods, because reason is not measured in size but sense. ”

- Unknown

“ So does this misfortune prevent you in any way from being just, generous, sober, reasonable, careful, free from error, courteous, free, etc. ”

- Unknown

“ At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. ”

- Unknown
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