When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll things fade and quickly turn to myth.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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