Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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