For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUSEverything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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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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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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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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Life is opinion.
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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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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