How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll things fade and quickly turn to myth.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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