Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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