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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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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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Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
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When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
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