The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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Life is opinion.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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