The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUSOur life is what our thoughts make it.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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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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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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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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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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 blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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