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• Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

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  Struggle, Meditation, Release

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• It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

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  Perfect, Mind, Desire

  "Treasures of Love & Inspiration". Book by Marjorie Barrows, p. 278, 1993.

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• Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought.

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  Thinking, Soul, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.74

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• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Animal

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (16), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (23), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

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  Lying, Race, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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  Life, Strength, Believe

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Gerald Henry Rendall (1907). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English”

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• Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

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  Wise, Heart, Men

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Men, Vines, Deeds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Men

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

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  Thinking, Mind, Speak

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), George Maximilian Anthony Grube (1963). “The meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.

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  Life, Justice, May

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• He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

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  Logic, Reason, Reason And Logic

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• The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

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  Soul, Single Life, Substance

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

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  Nature, Benefits, Whole

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• Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

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  Mind, Wish, Affair

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

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  Becoming, Action, Sin

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• God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

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  Fate, Law, Purpose

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• Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

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  Men, People, Sake

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

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  Time, Action, Unnecessary

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

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  Mind

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.230, Modern Library

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• The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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  Memories, Overwhelmed

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

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  Wisdom, Attitude, Bother

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• Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

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  Heart, Hot, Baths

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.88, Modern Library

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• Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

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  Men, Every Man

  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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