"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
Marcus Aurelius"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
Marcus Aurelius"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
Marcus Aurelius"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"
Marcus Aurelius"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."
Marcus Aurelius"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."
Marcus Aurelius"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."
Marcus Aurelius"Each day provides its own gifts."
Marcus Aurelius"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
Marcus Aurelius"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
Marcus Aurelius"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."
Marcus Aurelius"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius"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."
Marcus Aurelius"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
Marcus Aurelius"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
Marcus Aurelius"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."
Marcus Aurelius"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
Marcus Aurelius"The universe is transformation: life is opinion."
Marcus Aurelius"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
Marcus Aurelius"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
Marcus Aurelius"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."
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