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Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

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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Let no act be done without purpose.
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Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
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Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
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Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
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Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
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I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.
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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
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Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end for all things are of one kin and of one form.
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
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