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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.
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For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
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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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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
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Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
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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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When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.
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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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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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If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
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