Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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