Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUSPerfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of 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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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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