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 AURELIUSLook beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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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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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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