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.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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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Do not be ashamed of help.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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 best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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