Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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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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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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