Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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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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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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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
man soul
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
seed
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
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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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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree... When thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.
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