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Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
Marcus Aurelius
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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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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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Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
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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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The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
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