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 AURELIUSThe best revenge is not to do as they do.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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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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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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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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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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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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