Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
MARCUS AURELIUSWaste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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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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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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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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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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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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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