Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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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.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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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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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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