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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
Philosopher
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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
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If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it and you have the power to change it at will.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change.
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The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
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It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
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Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.
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Everything is mere opinion.
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You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.
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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
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I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
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Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.
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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.
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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
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