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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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... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
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Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
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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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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
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The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
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Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
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Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, I have a purpose, and the other goods as well.
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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
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If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
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Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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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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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
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