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Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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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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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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Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
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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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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.
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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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The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
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The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
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We are the other of the other
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Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.
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The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
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A person's life is what their thoughts make it.
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.
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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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