The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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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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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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