It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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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 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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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