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.
MARCUS AURELIUSA man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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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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