Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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