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Marcus Aurelius
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Marcus Aurelius?
→ Ability is of little account without opportunity.
→ You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
→ A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
→ There is only one happiness in life — to love and to be loved.
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Pick the quote attributed to Marcus Aurelius.
→ And, above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself.
→ Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
→ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
→ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
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Select the quotation attributed to Marcus Aurelius.
→ It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
→ My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
→ Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
→ Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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One of these may be attributed to Marcus Aurelius. Which one?
→ A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
→ Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
→ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
→ It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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Which one of these belongs to Marcus Aurelius?
→ In union there is strength.
→ If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
→ The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
→ When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Marcus Aurelius?
→ Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
→ Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
→ What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
→ All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Marcus Aurelius.
→ 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.
→ Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
→ The most effective kind of learning is that the child should play among lovely things.
→ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Marcus Aurelius. Which one?
→ The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
→ One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
→ Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
→ It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Marcus Aurelius?
→ Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
→ It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
→ Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
→ Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Marcus Aurelius.
→ Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
→ Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
→ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
→ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Looks like Marcus Aurelius is the author of one of these.
→ Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
→ Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.
→ The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.
→ Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Marcus Aurelius.
→ Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
→ I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
→ We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
→ Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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Which one should be attributed to Marcus Aurelius?
→ Anger cannot be dishonest.
→ Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
→ Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
→ Before using a fine word, make a place for it!
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Marcus Aurelius?
→ A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
→ Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
→ There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
→ The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
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Select the quote belonging to Marcus Aurelius.
→ That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.
→ The worst men often give the best advice.
→ Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
→ I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
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