Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
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MARCUS AURELIUS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
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