The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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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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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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