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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThink of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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