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Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.
– Marcus Aurelius

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  3. That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. – Marcus Aurelius
  4. You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. – Marcus Aurelius
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  6. Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. – Marcus Aurelius
  7. Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. – Marcus Aurelius
  8. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. – Marcus Aurelius
  9. Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aurelius
  10. When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love – Marcus Aurelius
  11. The world is mere change, and this life, opinion. – Marcus Aurelius
  12. No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one! – Marcus Aurelius
  13. Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. – Marcus Aurelius
  14. The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. – Marcus Aurelius
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  20. Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself. – Marcus Aurelius
  21. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. – Marcus Aurelius
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  24. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
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  27. Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised. – Marcus Aurelius
  28. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius
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  30. Never let the future disturb you – you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present… – Marcus Aurelius
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