It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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Life is opinion.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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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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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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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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