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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. The most famous aphorisms

It is ugly when an obedient person observes form and order according to the will of the understanding, but in the understanding itself - neither form nor order.
It makes no difference whether you observe human life for forty years or ten thousand years. For what will you see new?
Eternity is like a river of phenomena and a swiftly rushing stream. One has just had time to appear, and it has already sailed away, as another rushes by and a third is in a hurry to swim up.
Look inside, inside is a source of goodness - and it can always break through if you always dig it out.
Everything is intertwined with one another, and this connection is sacred, and there is almost nothing that is alien to the other. Because everything is subordinated and ordered in a single world order. For the world is one in everything, and God is one in everything, and nature is one, and there is one law - the common mind of all rational beings, and one truth, if there is one purpose for the only-begotten and one mind participating beings.
Look within, let neither its own quality nor its value escape you in any business.
If you knew from what source people's judgments and interests flow, you would cease to seek the approval and praise of people.
The task of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to live in accordance with the inner law that you are aware of.
The art of living is more like the art of wrestling than of dancing. It requires readiness and fortitude both in relation to the sudden and the unforeseen.
Do each task as if it were the last in your life.
Each is worth as much as what he cares about is worth.
Just as breathing connects you with the surrounding air, so let understanding connect everything rational with the surroundings, because the rational force is poured everywhere and is available to those who are able to swallow it, no less than air is available to those who are able to breathe.
Just as sea sand again and again lays on top of the former, so the former in life is quickly brought in by the new.
Just as a doctor always has tools and irons at hand in case of unexpected interference, so let you have ready the fundamental principles for recognizing divine and human affairs and in order to do even the smallest thing, mindful of the mutual connection of both. After all, you can’t do anything human good without correlating it with the divine, and vice versa.
Hold on to yourself. An intelligent leader is by nature self-sufficient if he acts justly and thereby keeps silence.
Whoever has seen the present has already seen everything that has been in the course of eternity, and everything that will be in the course of infinite time.
Who does not know what the world is, does not know where he himself is. And whoever does not know what he was born for, does not know who he is, nor what the world is. And whoever omits any of this will not say what he himself was born for. So who, then, tell me, does he appear to you who avoids or pursues the noise of praise from those who do not know where they are or who they are?
The best way to protect yourself is not to imitate.
People are born for each other.
It is necessary to be aware of what is said - to a single word, and what is happening - to a single aspiration. In one case, immediately look at what goal it is referred to, and in the other, catch the signified.
Our life is what we think about it.
It's not all the same to rant about what a person should be, it's time to become one.
Does it matter if your life lasts three hundred or even three thousand years? After all, you live only in the present moment, and no matter who you are, you lose only the present moment.
Don't be content with a superficial look. Neither the originality of each thing nor its dignity should escape you.
Don't spend the rest of your life thinking about others when you don't relate it to something generally useful.
You cannot make anything human good without relating it to the divine, and vice versa.
Neither our past can be taken away, because it no longer exists, nor the future, because we do not yet have it.
I am unhappy, this happened to me! .. No! I am happy that this happened to me, but I am still carefree, not hurt by the present, not shy before the future. Something like this could happen to anyone, but not everyone would be able to remain sad.
Nothing happens to anyone that he cannot bear.
It is not evil for a thrown stone to fall, and it is not such a good thing to fly up.
A thought and an arrow fly differently: a thought, even when it is cautious or dodging, considering something, nevertheless rushes straight to its object.
The joy of a person is to do what is human. And human kindness to fellow tribesmen, neglect of sensual movements, judgment on the convincingness of ideas, contemplation of universal nature and what happens in accordance with it are characteristic of a person.
Do you have a mind? Eat. Why do you manage without it? Or what else do you want when he does his thing?
The longest life is no different from the shortest. After all, the present is equal for everyone, and consequently, the losses are equal - and they come down only to a moment. No one can be deprived of either the past or the future.
The most contemptible kind of cowardice is self-pity.
Soon you will forget about everything, and everything, in turn, will forget about you.
Death is the same as birth, the mystery of nature, the connection from the same fundamental principles to the same. And there is nothing shameful in it for anyone: there is no inconsistency in it for a spiritual being, there is no contradiction with its structure.
Perfection of character is to spend every day as if it were your last, not to get excited, not to stagnate, not to pretend.
Hurry always by the shortest way, and the shortest way is by nature, to speak and do everything in the most sane way. Because such a rule leads away from labors and struggles, from calculations and all sorts of tricks.
Try to win over your contemporaries. Those who prefer to chase glory from posterity forget that future generations will be no different from the present, which they are burdened with. And these generations are also mortal.
Consider yourself worthy of every word and deed by nature, and do not let subsequent abuse or rumor touch you.
Three things you are made of: body, breath, mind. Of these, only the third is actually yours, the rest are yours only to the extent that you need to take care of them.
The vainglorious one recognizes the activity of others as his own good, the voluptuary - his own experience, the reasonable - his own deed.
Even if something was given to you with difficulty - do not recognize it as impossible for a person, but on the contrary, consider what is possible and characteristic of a person, then consider it accessible to yourself.
Often the one who does not do something is unjust, and not just the one who does something.
Man does not lose any other life than the one in which he lives, and lives only the one he loses.
The more a person loves himself, the more he depends on the opinions of others.
What is not harmful to the city does not harm the citizen either.
What is not good for the hive is not good for the bee.

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