No man is happy who does not think himself so.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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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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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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