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The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Annius Verus
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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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Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
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People exist for one another.
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Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
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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 substance of the universe is obedient and compliant and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.
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Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
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Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.
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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
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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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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
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When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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