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Marcus Aurelius Ambition Quotes
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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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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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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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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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 someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
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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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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
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Learn to be Indifferent to what makes no Difference.
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Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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