Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Quote by Marcus Aurelius
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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- 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.
- 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, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
- I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
- At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
- Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
- When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
- Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
- I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
- Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.