Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
MARCUS AURELIUSBe tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Life is opinion.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Take 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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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