The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUSLife is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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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 ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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