Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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