Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Marcus Aurelius
A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something
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To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself
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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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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
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Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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