Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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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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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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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