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 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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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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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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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