It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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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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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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