Stoic Quotes on Virtue

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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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interconnectedness virtue time
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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mind virtue perception
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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happiness mind virtue
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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control virtue perception
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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control virtue death
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If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Receive without pride, let go without attachment.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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mind virtue
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A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Author: Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

Author: Epictetus
Source: Enchiridion

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