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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
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All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
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The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
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When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
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In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
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Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.
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