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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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