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 AURELIUSReceive without conceit, release without struggle.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Life is opinion.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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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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