How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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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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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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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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