John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Marcus Aurelius. (121–180) (continued) |
| 9048 |
| If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. |
| Meditations. vi. 21. |
| 9049 |
| 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. |
| Meditations. vi. 28. |
| 9050 |
| Suit thyself to the estate in which thy lot is cast. |
| Meditations. vi. 39. |
| 9051 |
| What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. |
| Meditations. vi. 54. |
| 9052 |
| How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! |
| Meditations. vii. 6. |
| 9053 |
| One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth. |
| Meditations. vii. 9. |
| 9054 |
| To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason. |
| Meditations. vii. 11. |
| 9055 |
| Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already. |
| Meditations. vii. 27. |
| 9056 |
| Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. |
| Meditations. vii. 34. |
| 9057 |
| The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. |
| Meditations. vii. 61. |
| 9058 |
| Remember this,—that very little is needed to make a happy life. |
| Meditations. vii. 67. |
| 9059 |
| Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before. |
| Meditations. viii. 16. |