It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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