Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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by Marcus Aurelius Quote posted in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
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What is my ruling faculty now to me? And of what nature am I now making it? And for what purpose am I now using it? Is it void of understanding? Is it loosed and rent asunder from social life? Is it melted and mixed with the poor flesh so as to move together with it?
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing: here is perfection of character.
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