How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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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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