Quote #35
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
More from Marcus Aurelius
- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
- Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
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- Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for t…
- Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
- How much more grievous are the consequences of an event than the causes of it.