"If thou workest at that which is..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
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“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.”
“Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.”
“Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.”
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“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”
“You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.”
“Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.”