Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

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• If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

  

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• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

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• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

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• If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

  

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• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

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• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  

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• 'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

  

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• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

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• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

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• My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

  

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• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

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• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

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• Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

  

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• The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

  

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• I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

  

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• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

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• I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

  

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• Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
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• The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Done
  • Power