Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
MARCUS AURELIUSVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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