For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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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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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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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