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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher
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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
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
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Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
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Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
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A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
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When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
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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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Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change.
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Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
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External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
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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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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
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Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.
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Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
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A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.
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My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, good can only mean what's good for both communities.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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