How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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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.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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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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