For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Accept 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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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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