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Marcus Aurelius Quotes

«You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Friendship | Keywords: antique, antiques, originals, vase, vases
«Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sink to rest»
«Fortune gives many too much, but none enough»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Fortune
«Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Knowledge | Keywords: hesitate
«I think he needs our pity who likes none»
«To them that ask, 'Where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship?' I answer, 'Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.'»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: devout, for certain
«Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: Caesar, delay, folk
«You wish to appear, Cotta, a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man, Cotta, is a very small man»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: one and the same
«There is no living with thee, nor without thee»
«And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: relief, wilt