You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone. ― Marcus Aurelius

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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

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I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people. ― Marcus Aurelius

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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. – Mark Twain

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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. ― Marcus Aurelius

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