It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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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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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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Do not be ashamed of help.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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