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Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
Marcus Aurelius
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When pain is unbearable it destroys us when it does not it is bearable.
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
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Your task is to stand straight not to be held straight.
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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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