How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo 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 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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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