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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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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
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The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
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Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
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Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
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People exist for one another.
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A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
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Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?
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There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return
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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
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Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
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This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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A person's life is what their thoughts make it.
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