The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe 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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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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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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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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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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