Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhen you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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