Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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