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To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it
By Marcus Aurelius
The sinners sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
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One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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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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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as dreams, and vapors
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others
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Galla will, and will not comply with my wishes and I cannot tell with her willing and not willing, what she wills
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered
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Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.
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Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it
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All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.
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All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.
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