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• Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Causes, May

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Time, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

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  Heart, Men, Leisure

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• Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

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  Running, Time, Recovery

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

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  Practice, People, Design

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Drinking, Love You, Sleep

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• Dig within. There lies the wellspring of good.

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  Wise, Lying, Wellspring

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• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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  Meditation, Sake, Bears

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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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  Morning, Rising, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

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  Judgement, Today, Circumstances

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1968). “(Markou Antoninou autokratoros Ta eis heauton): The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

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• The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

  Marcus Aurelius

  This Life, Worthless

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

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• If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

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  Men, Able, Sound

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.20, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

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  Men, Existentialism, Dies

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

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  Men, Unnecessary, Should

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• Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Born, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

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  Power, Sobriety, Grumbling

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• Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

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  Relation, All Time, Following

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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  Life, Real, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1908). “The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Everything is mere opinion.

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  Opinion, Mere

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• Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

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  Art, Simple, Years

  Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.214, tredition

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• Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

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  Divinity, Serene, Take Me

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• Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

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  Soul, Mind, Desire

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.34, Modern Library

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• Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

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  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (19), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

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  Lying, Character, Men

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• All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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  Myth, Turns, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.72, Penguin UK

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