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.
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.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Life is opinion.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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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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