Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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