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.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo not be ashamed of help.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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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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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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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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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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