It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
MARCUS AURELIUSEverything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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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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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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