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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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