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Marcus Aurelius
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The Eternal City
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Annius Verus
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Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance and be ready to let it go.
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Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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Give full attention and devotion to each act.
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The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.
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Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.
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Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
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All things are in the act of change thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
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Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
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Sweep me up and send me where you please. For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?
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Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.
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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it
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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible life in a palace is possible therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
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The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.
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