What we do now echoes in eternity.
MARCUS AURELIUSIf any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Confine yourself to the present.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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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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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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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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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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