Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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 blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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