Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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 first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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