Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship."
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"There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship."
Marcus Aurelius
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
"“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”"
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"If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."
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"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
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"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature’s wisdom."
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"Live every day as if they last."
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"The universe is flux, life is opinion."
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"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
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"That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay."
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"Our thoughts is what our life make it"
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"It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."
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"You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion."
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"What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice. A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure."
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"All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion."
Marcus Aurelius
"“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”"
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
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