Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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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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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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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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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
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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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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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