“Confine yourself to the present.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book 8
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Philosophy Quotes
180 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“The man who laughs at another's misfortune has simply decided his own comfort matters more than someone else's pain. That is the whole of his character.”
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“Every city is a thousand private stories happening simultaneously, and you are one of them, no more or less.”
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“The person the world ignores is usually the one paying the closest attention to it.”
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“Your softness and your firmness are the same thing. Both are you.”
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“A woman who knows her own mind is never really alone in a room.”
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“Anger is just fear with better posture. It fools other people, but it rarely fools you.”
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“A lie told to protect your comfort is still a crack in the foundation of who you are.”
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“Silence before a note is not empty. It is the whole argument, waiting to be made.”
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“The form you choose is not your cage. It is your spine.”
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