The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.


Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grape...
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...
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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they wo...
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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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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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
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For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ...
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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...
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He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
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'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
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I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
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Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
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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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