The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
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Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things thathappen to us come because we actually deserve them So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
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Think often of how swiftly all things pass away and are no more the works of Nature and the works of man. The substance of the Universe, matter, is like unto a river that flows on forever. All things are not only in a constant state of change, but they are the cause of constant and infinite change in other things. Upon a narrow ledge thou standouts Behind thee, the bottomless abyss of the Past In front of thee, the Future that will swallow up all things that are now. Over what things, then, in this present life wilt thou, O foolish man, be disquieted or exalted making thyself wretched seeing that they can vex thee only for a time a brief, brief time.
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You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends while you live, and while you may, be good.
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