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.
MARCUS AURELIUSAccept 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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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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 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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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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It’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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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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