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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher
Politician
Roman Emperor
Writer
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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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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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.
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Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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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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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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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 ... then make that day count!
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
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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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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible life in a palace is possible therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
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Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
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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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A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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