The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUSThat which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Think 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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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