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You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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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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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
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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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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.
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The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
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The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
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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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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
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We are born for cooperation
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
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Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
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We are the other of the other
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Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
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I am called to man's labour why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
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If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it and you have the power to change it at will.
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