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A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher
Politician
Roman Emperor
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The Eternal City
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Annius Verus
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.
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Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
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Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.
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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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Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...
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The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
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Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
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But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
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Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
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It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
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Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
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Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
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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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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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Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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