Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Perfection
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The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
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This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
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All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.
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Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.
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