Marcus Aurelius Short Quotes

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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All is ephemeral—fame and the famous as well.

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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure.

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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Variant translations:

That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.

What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.

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

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It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

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Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

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You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.

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Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

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Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.

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He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

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The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

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Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

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The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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

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All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

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