Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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