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.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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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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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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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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