That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
MARCUS AURELIUSRemember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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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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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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