That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
MARCUS AURELIUSTake full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Life is opinion.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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