“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Do not indulge in dreams of what you have not, but count the blessings actually present.
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“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
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“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
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“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“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 · Meditations, Book 7
