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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
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Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
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If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
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Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river the what is in constant flux, the why has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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The intelligence of the universe is social.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.
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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations
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The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
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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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Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
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Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
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Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.
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This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
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