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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

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
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The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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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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Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
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They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.
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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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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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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
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I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
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You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.
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As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value
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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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The sinner sins against himself the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
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We are born for cooperation
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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
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