Virtue

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Virtue

"Character is not formed in a week or a month."

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

"Man is by nature a social animal."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

"All things are full of gods."

"Happiness is the highest good."

"There is no great genius without a touch of madness."

"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."

"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: reflection, imitation, and experience."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

"Real knowledge is knowing the extent of one's ignorance."

"When we know a thing, to hold that we know it; and when we do not know, to allow that we do not know."

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

"When the father is away, the character is shaped."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."

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

"Confine yourself to the present."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself."

"You have only ever had one master; one source from which all things proceed."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."

"The impediment to action advances action."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life."

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Be as you wish to seem."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

"I know that I know nothing."

"Virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good."

"No one willingly pursues evil, nor what they think to be evil."

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

"He who is not contented with what he has would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."