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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.
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But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life what remains can be borne.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
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Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
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The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.
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Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.
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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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I am called to man's labour why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
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It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
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