Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhat we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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Life is opinion.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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