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The intelligence of the universe is social.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher
Politician
Roman Emperor
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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
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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The sinner sins against himself the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
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To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
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Give full attention and devotion to each act.
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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.
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Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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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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The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
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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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There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
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Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
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