Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Think 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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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Life is opinion.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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