To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSThough you break your heart, men will go on as before.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Life is opinion.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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