Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
MARCUS AURELIUSIt never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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