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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
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Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
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Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
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All things are in the act of change thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
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Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.
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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
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Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river the what is in constant flux, the why has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.
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Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
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For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
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But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
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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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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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