Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make...

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make...

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if...

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

Each day provides its own gifts

Each day provides its own gifts

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity...

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think...

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think...