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Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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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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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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Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.
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Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to hold out against even this.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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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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You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
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Men despise one another and flatter one another and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
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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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Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
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