Men quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse."
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
"Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man."
"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark."
"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."