Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, 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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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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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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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