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.
MARCUS AURELIUSHumans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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