For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUSConfine yourself to the present.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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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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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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