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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'
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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
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There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
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All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
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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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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into the secrets of the nether world, as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
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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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As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
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I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
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Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.
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Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
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