Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUSThat which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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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 sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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