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Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

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
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Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
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It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
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If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
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Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
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Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
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Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
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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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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.
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I am called to man's labour why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
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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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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
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I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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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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Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.
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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.
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To expect an impossibility is madness.
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