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Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

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
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...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.
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Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
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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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You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.
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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
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It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.
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Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
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Every man's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
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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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