Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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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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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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Life is opinion.
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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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