Marek Aureliusz: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 8)

“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”

“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”

“The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.”

“I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”

“Life is opinion.”

“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?… It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”

“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty… For what task, then, were you yourself created?”

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

“Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.”

“It loved to happen.”

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”