What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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More Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
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An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
