The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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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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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
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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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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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