Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we do now echoes in eternity.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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 impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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