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“Doth then any of them forsake their former false opinions that I should think they profit? For without a change of opinions, alas! what is all that ostentation, but mere wretchedness of slavish minds, that groan privately, and yet would make a show of obedience to reason, and truth?”
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
“Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations.”
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
“Is any many so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?”
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
“The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.”
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
“For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.”
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
― Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius
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