Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
MARCUS AURELIUSThink 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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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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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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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