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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    Marcus Aurelius
    “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #3
    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, Meditations

  • #4
    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, Meditations

  • #5
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #6
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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?”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #7
    Marcus Aurelius
    “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.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #8
    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, Meditations

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
    Marcus Aurelius

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
    Marcus Aurelius

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #14
    Frank Herbert
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #15
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #16
    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune

  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #18
    Frank Herbert
    “If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #19
    Frank Herbert
    “The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune



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