Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
MARCUS AURELIUSMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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