244 ordspråk av Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
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Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.
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Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Death is 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.
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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