"Let it be your constant method to..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”
“You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.”
“Where a man can live, he can also live well.”
More on Self Awareness
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
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More on Understanding
“Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”
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