Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
MARCUS AURELIUSChoose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
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Do not be ashamed of help.
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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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Confine yourself to the present.
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Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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