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.
MARCUS AURELIUSA person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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.
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