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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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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
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole.
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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
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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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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming the friend of justice and godliness kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.
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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
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