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Blot out vain pomp check impulse quench appetite keep reason under its own control.
Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Annius Verus
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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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Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
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It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
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Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
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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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Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
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From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.
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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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Because other people are fools, must you be so too?
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Truth and ceremony are two things.
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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.
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