Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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You always own the option of having no 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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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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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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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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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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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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