When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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