Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhen men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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That 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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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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