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Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.
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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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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.
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Blot out vain pomp check impulse quench appetite keep reason under its own control.
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My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, good can only mean what's good for both communities.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
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