It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSYou have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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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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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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Life is opinion.
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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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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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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