Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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