244 ordspråk av Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father
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Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, "I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;" implying that he would accept no favor which he could not repay
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend
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Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts
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Surrender your life serenely, as serenely as the One who takes it from you
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
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Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
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