Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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