The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll 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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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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 moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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