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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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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
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Men despise one another and flatter one another and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
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All things are changing and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
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Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
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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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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
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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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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
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Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.
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The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
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It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.
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All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
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... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.
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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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