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"Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it." -
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Marcus Aurelius
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Top 5 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change."
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"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 opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
"The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man."
"In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors."
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