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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
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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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Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
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When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that I am rising for the work of man.
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It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...
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So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
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If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.
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