Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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 best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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