That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
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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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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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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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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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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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