The best revenge is not to do as they do.
MARCUS AURELIUSReceive without conceit, release without struggle.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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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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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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