It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
- 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.
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
- 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.
- Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
- Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
- That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.