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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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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. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. ↗

— Jane Austen

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