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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
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Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
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As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
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He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.
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From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.
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Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
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Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
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And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'
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As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: What is his point of reference here? But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.
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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
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Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
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Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
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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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