For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUSBe like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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