No one can lose either the past or the future.
MARCUS AURELIUSIf 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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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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