The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll things fade and quickly turn to myth.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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