How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUSYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Life is opinion.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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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 soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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