The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
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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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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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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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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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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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Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
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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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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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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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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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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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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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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 have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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