The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
MARCUS AURELIUSNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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