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Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

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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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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While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
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No one wearies of benefits received.
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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 souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.
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This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
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Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
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Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.
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From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.
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