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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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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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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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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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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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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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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
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Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.
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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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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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Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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