To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt’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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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 much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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