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Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.
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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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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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How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
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The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
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Blot out vain pomp check impulse quench appetite keep reason under its own control.
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Thou mayest foresee... the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of things now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years.
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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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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
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... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
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The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.
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The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
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Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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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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The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
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