Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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 art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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The 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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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