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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius
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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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When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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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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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance and be ready to let it go.
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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.
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Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.
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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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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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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.
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