How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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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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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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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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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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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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