Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
MARCUS AURELIUSNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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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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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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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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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.
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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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