Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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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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