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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

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  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

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  Men, Duty

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• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

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  Blessed, Men, Dying

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• Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

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  Bothering You, Endless Time, Hands

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.38, Modern Library

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• Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

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  Names, Blame, Forget

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• Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

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  Kindness, Quality, Common

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (9), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

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  Life, Happiness, Positive Thinking

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• Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

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  Life, Positive, Able

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.139, Modern Library

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• How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

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  Ridiculous, Strange, Surprise

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

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• He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

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  Reality, Evil, Fear Of Death

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (58), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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  Love, Family, Happiness

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• A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

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  Men, Done, Undone

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

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• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

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  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Talking

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

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  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

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  Inspirational, Power, Judging

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• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

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  Fate, Perfection, Each Day

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• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Live For Today, Too Late

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• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

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  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

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  Inspirational, People, Tears

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• The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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  Inspirational, Fire, Flames

  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.62, Lulu.com

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• Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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  Taken, Complaining, Harm

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

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  Past, Mind, Endurance

  Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

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  Good Person, Ends, Should

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• In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

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  Gratitude, Sadness, Expression

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