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Marcus Aurelius
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Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.
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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
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There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
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Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
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All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.
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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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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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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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Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
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The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.
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