The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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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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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.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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