The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUSIf it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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 one can lose either the past or the future.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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