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Marcus Aurelius Quotes (Marcus Aurelius Antoninius)

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  • "Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "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

  • "The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "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."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive--to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "Where a man can live, he can also live well."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "You have power over your mind--not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
    - Marcus Aurelius

  • "Your life is what your thoughts make it."
    - Marcus Aurelius

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