A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
MARCUS AURELIUSNothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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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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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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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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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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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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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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