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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
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.
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Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
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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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He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it and you have the power to change it at will.
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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible life in a palace is possible therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
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What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.
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When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
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The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
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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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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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