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Live each day as if it be your last.

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
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Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.
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It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
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If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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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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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
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Men despise one another and flatter one another and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
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The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
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Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?
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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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When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
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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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