I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe 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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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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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