Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
MARCUS AURELIUSMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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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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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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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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