Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
Marcus Aurelius in Meditations
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
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Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
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