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.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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 art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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 first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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