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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

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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Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
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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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But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into 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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
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When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
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