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

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

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Integrity, Insperational
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book X, Chapter 16), circa 170.

Live each day as if it be your last.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Each Day, Lasts

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Time, Hands
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, 17. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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Strong, Time, Passing By
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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

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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

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

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Past, Two
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Philosophical, Men

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

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Men, Gone

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Lasts, Limits

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Marcus Aurelius
Running, Time, Recovery
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Men, Past
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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