I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUSNeither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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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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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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