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Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Marcus Aurelius
Climbing, Mountain, Littles
"Meditations".

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Heart, Hot, Baths
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.88, Modern Library

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

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Ephemeral, Reputation, Dignity
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (35), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius
Freedom, Bees And Honey, Honey Bee
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1928). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself”

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Philosophical, Secret
Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

Let no act be done without purpose.

Marcus Aurelius
Purpose, Done
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.38, Enhanced Media Publishing

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Marcus Aurelius
Grief, Men, Joy

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

Marcus Aurelius
Strong, Men, Bystanders
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS”

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

Marcus Aurelius
Way, Faces, Spirit

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

Marcus Aurelius
Divinity, Serene, Take Me

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Self, Personality

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

Marcus Aurelius
Drama, Events, Different
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 27,

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
Inspirational, Running, Horse
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Marcus Aurelius
Pain

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Sole, Deprived

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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Motivation, Work, Half

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

Marcus Aurelius
Art, Pain, Complaining
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.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

Marcus Aurelius
Generations, Fleeting, Duration

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Marcus Aurelius
World, Opinion, This Life
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.54, Diversion Books

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Marcus Aurelius
Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius
Mistake, Ignorance, Self

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Unhappy, Causes

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Men, Gone

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

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

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Marcus Aurelius
Social, Universe
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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