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External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

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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No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into the secrets of the nether world, as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land the only lasting fame is oblivion.
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If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that I am rising for the work of man.
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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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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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For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
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Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
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I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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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 harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
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This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
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For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
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The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
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