"If any man has done wrong, the..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.
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“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”
“You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.”
“If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.”
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“Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
“When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.”
“In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.”
More on Judgment
“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”
“udge not, before you judge yourself.Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.”