It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe best revenge is not to do as they do.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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