“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.”
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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.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“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.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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