Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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 soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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