Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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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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