Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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