Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll things fade and quickly turn to myth.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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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.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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