Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
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man nature
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
places change man
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
man thetimes time
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
man
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
ambition worth man
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
man men
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
virtues ability glory man education
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Where a man can live, he can also live well.
He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.
reputation man
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into the secrets of the nether world, as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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