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Poverty is the mother of crime. - Marcus Aurelius

Poverty is the mother of crime. – Marcus Aurelius

Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. – Marcus Aurelius

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Control
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Marcus Aurelius
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius

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People
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Marcus Aurelius
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Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace. – Marcus Aurelius

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Character
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Justice & Law
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. – Tacitus, Annals

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Justice & Law

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel. – Judge Sturgess

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Justice & Law

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. – H.L. Mencken

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. – J. K. Rowling

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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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