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Your task is to stand straight not to be held straight.

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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
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We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.
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When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.
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Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.
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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
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