Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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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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