When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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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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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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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 sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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