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.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Life is opinion.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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