No one can lose either the past or the future.
MARCUS AURELIUSNeither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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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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