I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Do 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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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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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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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