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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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“This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The ways of the gods are full of providence.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man should _be_ upright, not be _kept_ upright.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let thine occupations be few," saith the sage, "if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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 Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A man's happiness,--to do the things proper to man.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If it is not seemly, do it not; if it is not true, speak it not.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source