A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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