Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
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Citations by Marcus Aurelius
In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it.
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Posted by: Stefano Gandolfi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
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Posted by: Davide Castellani
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Posted by: Valentina Bernasconi
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
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Posted by: Andrew Mannarino
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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Posted by: Maresa Schembri
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth 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.
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Posted by: Davide Bianco
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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