To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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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 things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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