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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
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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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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor
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The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
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This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?
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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.
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How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
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If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
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They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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