You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
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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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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Life is opinion.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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