Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
- 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.
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Anger cannot be dishonest.
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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