Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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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 death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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