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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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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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Falling In Love, Men, Sight

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.30, Lulu.com

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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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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

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Pain, Attitude, Thinking

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He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

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Solitude, Danger, Alone Life

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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

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Empathy, Mind, Speakers

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How soon will time cover all things.

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All Things

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.36, Lulu.com

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Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

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Way, Faces, Spirit

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This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

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Destiny, Chiefs, All Things

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.44, Lulu.com

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There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

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Men, Dying, Happens

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.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

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Character, Men, Action

Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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Death, Science, Perception

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Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

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Fate, May, Eternity

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

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Pain, Evil, Sin

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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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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

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Revenge, Imitation, Refrain

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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

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Strong, Men, Perfect

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.21, Enhanced Media Publishing

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It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

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Pain, Stress, Hands

Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.76, Modern Library

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He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

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Wisdom, Doe

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.52, Lulu.com

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

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Wisdom, Truth, Ignorance

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He who eats my bread, does my will.

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Hard Work, Bread, Doe

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

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Running, Gratitude, Philosophical

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My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

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Self, True Self

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Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

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Ontology, Infinity, Logic

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Born: April 26, 121
Died: March 17, 180
Occupation: Roman emperor
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