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The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.
- Marcus Aurelius
That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.
- Marcus Aurelius
Second, that both the longest-lived and the earliest to die suffer the same loss. It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if indeed this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
- Marcus Aurelius
Fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you. Revere the
- Marcus Aurelius
Suppose someone despises me. That's their concern, not mine. My concern is to live in harmony with nature and reason, so that my actions won't be worthy of contempt.
- Marcus Aurelius
Consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at which we are angry and vexed
- Marcus Aurelius
What is outside the scope of my mind has absolutely no concern with my mind. Learn this lesson and thou standest erect.
- Marcus Aurelius
Make no difference in doing thy duty whether thou art shivering or warm, drowsy or sleep-satisfied, defamed or extolled, dying or anything else. For the act of dying too is one of the acts of life. So it is enough in this also to get the work in hand done well.
- Marcus Aurelius
I worked with Diodotus the Stoic, who made his residence in my house, and after a life of long intimacy died there only a short time ago.
- Cicero
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
- Epictetus
I fear neither death nor fire, being prepared for both.
- John Foxe
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
- George Eliot