How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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