Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one can lose either the past or the future.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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When 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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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