If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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