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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?
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Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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