For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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.
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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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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