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 AURELIUSReject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Life is opinion.
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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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