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A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.
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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
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The main thing we were made for is to work with others.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.
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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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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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Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art
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He that lives alone lives in danger society avoids many dangers.
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Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
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Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
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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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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.
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Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
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