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.
MARCUS AURELIUSLife is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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 best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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