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> > 'Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.'
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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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> > '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.'
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> > '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.'
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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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> > 'Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.'
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> > 'The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.'
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> > 'Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.'
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> > '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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> > '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.'
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> > 'If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error. But if you are not able, blame yourself, or blame not even yourself.'
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> > 'You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.'
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> > 'Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.'
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> > 'Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.'
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> > 'How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.'
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> > 'Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.'
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> > 'Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of you that you are not lucid or that your are not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about you; and this is altogether in your power.'
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> > 'Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?'
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> > 'The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.'
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> >   --IMPERATOR CAESAR MARCVS AVRELIVS ANTONIVS AVGVSTVS (121-180 CE)
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