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Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

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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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
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Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?
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All things are in the act of change thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee.
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that I am rising for the work of man.
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
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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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Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.
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I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.
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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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If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
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Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.
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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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Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.
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Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
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