Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Truth
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
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I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
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Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.
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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
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