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“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.”
Marcus Aurelius
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be content to seem what you really are.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
Marcus Aurelius
“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.'”
Marcus Aurelius
“And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Men exist for the sake of one another.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.”
Marcus Aurelius
