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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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