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I am called to man's labour why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Annius Verus
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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible life in a palace is possible therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
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Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
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Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.
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In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
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No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
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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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When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
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He that lives alone lives in danger society avoids many dangers.
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Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.
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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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