How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we do now echoes in eternity.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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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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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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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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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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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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