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He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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The Eternal City
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Annius Verus
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
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One universe made up all that is and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
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In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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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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How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
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If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
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What we cannot bear removes us from life what remains can be borne.
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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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The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
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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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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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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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