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The intelligence of the universe is social.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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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
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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
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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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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.
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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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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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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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We must press on then, in haste not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.
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Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.
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He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
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If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
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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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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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