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 AURELIUSA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make 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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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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 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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