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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.

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