What we do now echoes in eternity.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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 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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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