To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSYour 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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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