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Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily? – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
All our efforts must be directed towards an end, or we will act in vain. If it is not the right end, we will fail utterly. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The following are non-sequiturs: ‘I am richer, therefore superior to you’; or ‘I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you’. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
When you’ve done well and another has benefited by it, why like a fool do you look for a third thing on top— credit for the good deed or a favor in return? – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow. But as long as you don’t point it out to him, don’t make fun of him; be aware of what you need to work on instead. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker’s mind. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
[Treat] unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember Plato’s dictum: ‘Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’ – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself “I’ll do it tomorrow,” and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or ’twill be gone and nevermore within your reach. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not “This is misfortune,” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune”. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Set yourself in motion, if it is in your power, and do not look about you to see if anyone will observe it; nor yet expect Plato’s Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
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 Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
You can pass your life in an equable flow of happiness if you can follow the right way and think and act in the right way. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and how nothing need arouse one’s irritation so long as one doesn’t make it bigger than it is by getting irritated. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. – Marcus Aurelius Famous Quote	added 5 years ago

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