Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
MARCUS AURELIUSNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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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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Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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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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