It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around 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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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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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