Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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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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