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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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.
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Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity industriousness and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank be temperate in manner and speech carry yourself with authority.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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One universe made up all that is and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
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