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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThough you break your heart, men will go on as before.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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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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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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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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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 moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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