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.
MARCUS AURELIUSBe tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Life is opinion.
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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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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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