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.


Marcus Aurelius

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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
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The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
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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, t...
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
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The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
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You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
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Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
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Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
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You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
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When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
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It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
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Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
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Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
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You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
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How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
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Nothing in nature is evil.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
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I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
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To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
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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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The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
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Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
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Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
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You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
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Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
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I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
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