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We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

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Hands, Feet, Cooperation

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Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

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Heart, Men, Giving

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To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

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School, Home, Advice

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Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

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Made

"Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus".

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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

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Reason, Rational

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 11,

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In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

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Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

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Philosophical, Form, Everlasting

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

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For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

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Wonderful, Reason, Shows

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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Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

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Simple, Soul, Naked

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.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

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And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does not harm law [order]; and of these things which are called misfortunes not one harms law. What then does not harm law does not harm either state or citizen.

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Order, Law, Doe

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

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Life, Character, Perfection

c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.7, no.69 (translated by M Staniforth).

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Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

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Inspirational, Nature, Healing

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (36), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

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Men, Soul, Live Well

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All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

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Drama, Events, Different

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 27,

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The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

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Firsts, Causes, Kinship

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 1,

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Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

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Time, Lasts, Limits

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The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

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Fall, Air, Stones

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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

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Plato, Men, Thinking

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.39, Lulu.com

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Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

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Reading, Writing, Able

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.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

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Madmen, Pursue, Impossibility

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Men exist for the sake of one another.

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Philosophical, Men, Sake

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.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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But that which is useful is the better.

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Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.18, Enhanced Media Publishing

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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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Looks, Moments, Reason

"The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Selections Annotated & Explained".

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Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

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Ashes, Too Late, Glory

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All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

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Providence

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.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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