When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
MARCUS AURELIUSNeither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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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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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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