Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUSDon’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Life is opinion.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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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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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
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