No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo 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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Life is opinion.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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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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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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