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 AURELIUSThe memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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