Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Wisdom
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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.
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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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