A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
MARCUS AURELIUSHe is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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 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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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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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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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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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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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He is so rich, he has no room to shit.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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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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