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.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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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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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 memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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