What we do now echoes in eternity.
MARCUS AURELIUSDon’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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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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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You always own the option of having no opinion.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
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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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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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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 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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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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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Life is opinion.
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Confine yourself to the present.
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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The best revenge is not to do as they do.
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