No one can lose either the past or the future.
MARCUS AURELIUSDeath smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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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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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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