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 AURELIUSNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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