If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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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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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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Life is opinion.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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