Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo man is happy who does not think himself so.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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 best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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