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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

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
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
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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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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
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If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
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Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.
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We are born for cooperation
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So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.
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Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
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It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.
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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
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We must press on then, in haste not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.
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Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
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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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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
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