The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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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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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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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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