Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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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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