What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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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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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Life is opinion.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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