It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUSHow ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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