All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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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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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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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