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.
MARCUS AURELIUSConfine yourself to the present.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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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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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Life is opinion.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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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 one can lose either the past or the future.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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