Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUSAccept 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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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