Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUSNowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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 world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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You always own the option of having no 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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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