How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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