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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'
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Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
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Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
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