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• It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

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  Care, Vex

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 38,

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• The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

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  Change, Spiritual, Whole

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• Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.

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  Hate, Hypocrite, Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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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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  Men, Rejection, Mind

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• All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

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  Patience, Men, Tolerance

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.165, Diversion Books

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• The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

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  Done, Undone, Persons

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• Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

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  Men, Flow, Divine

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (5), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

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  Running, Thinking, Dust

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• The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

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  Time, Men, Gone

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• Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

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  Soul, Contentment, Doe

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• Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

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  Running, Stars, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

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  Men, Care, Feels

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• When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

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  Over You, Lasts, Return

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• All is as thinking makes it so

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  Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.262, Penguin UK

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• The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

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  Laughing, Demand, Cucumbers

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

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• One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

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  Life, Solitude, Mind

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• It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

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  Pain, Soul, Mind

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• Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

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  Adversity, Men, Endure

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• If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

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  Death, Believe, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

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  Art, Metamorphosis, Corruption

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 19. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

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  Generations, Fleeting, Duration

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• Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

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  Cutting, Age, States

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 33,

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• Give full attention and devotion to each act.

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  Giving, Advice, Attention

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• Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives us.

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  Giving, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.137, Modern Library

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