It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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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 to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.
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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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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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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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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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