Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Sin
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The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
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Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.
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It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.
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Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.
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It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
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