The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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