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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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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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I am called to man's labour why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
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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.
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I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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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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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
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Give full attention and devotion to each act.
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
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A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
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Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
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Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming the friend of justice and godliness kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.
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Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
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If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.
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