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.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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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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Do not be ashamed of help.
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