Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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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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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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