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• My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.

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  Father, Thinking, Soul And Body

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

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  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole,
  and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what
  kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one
  who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are
  according to the nature of which thou art a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Mind, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

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  Lambs, Particular, Asks

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• We are born for cooperation

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  Cooperation, Born

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (2013). “Meditations”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

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  Vanity, Fame, Everlasting

  "The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

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• Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

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  Suffering, Judgment, Impression

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

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• If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

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  Men, Justice, Being Real

  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.25, Lulu.com

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• Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular.

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  Two, Giving, Community

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• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

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  Imagination, Touching, Waste

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

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  People, Purpose, Impulse

  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.110, Modern Library

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• Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

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  Friendly, Connections, Way

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

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• Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

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  Soul, Leisure, Inward

  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.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

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  Doe, Loses

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• Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

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  Motivational, Golf, Self Improvement

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• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

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  Summer, Spring, Rose

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 44,

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• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Way

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• If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

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  Men, Transformation, Wave

  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.102, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

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  Love, Fate, Spun

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• Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

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  Matter, Causes, Scene

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

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  Teacher, Father, Educational

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book I, Verse 4,

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• Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

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  Ignorance, Men, Stronger

  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.55, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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  Philosophical, Men, Live Well

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• In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

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  Morning, Work, Men

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• The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.146, 德威國際文化

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