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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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Do not be ashamed of help.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Life is opinion.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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