Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhen 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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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If 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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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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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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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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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