The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUSNever 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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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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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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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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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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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