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.
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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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Life is opinion.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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