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The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Single Life, Substance
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Time, Giving
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius
Philosophical, Loving Yourself, Self Acceptance

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Action, Unnecessary
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.70, Penguin UK

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

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Men, Duty

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Marcus Aurelius
Logic, Reason, Reason And Logic

Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Justice, May

Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

Marcus Aurelius
Thinking, Soul, Quality
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

Marcus Aurelius
Thinking, Mind, Speak
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Marcus Aurelius
Two, Flattery, Ceremony
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.211

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Real, Philosophical
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1908). “The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

Marcus Aurelius
Becoming, Action, Sin

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Cute, Warfare
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.11, Lulu.com

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Marcus Aurelius
Lying, Race, Self
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Marcus Aurelius
Evil, Way, Found

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

Marcus Aurelius
Self, Upset, Unity

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Dying, Tests

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Marcus Aurelius
Fate, Law, Purpose

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom, Truth, Ignorance

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Motivational, Success
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (19), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Marcus Aurelius
Empathy, Mind, Speakers

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

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Satisfaction
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

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

Marcus Aurelius
Mean, Order, Mind
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Nature
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (23), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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