I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUSNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
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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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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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