A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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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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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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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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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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