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"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, More quotation on Happiness. |
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. |
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"It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. |
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"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. |
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. |
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. |
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"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. |
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"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, More quotation on Beauty. |
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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."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. |
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"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work'."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. |