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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher
Politician
Roman Emperor
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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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If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
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All things are changing and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
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Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest
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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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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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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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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
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Give full attention and devotion to each act.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
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