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It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. (Marcus Aurelius)
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason. View quote
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. View quote
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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit. View quote
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion. View quote
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Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. View quote
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Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee? View quote
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. View quote
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Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all. View quote
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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. View quote
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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. (Marcus Aurelius)
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good. View quote
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Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil. View quote
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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. View quote
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But that which is useful is the better. View quote
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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. View quote
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Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. View quote
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Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another. View quote
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But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. View quote
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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. View quote
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself. (Marcus Aurelius)
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another. View quote
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Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul. View quote
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I consist of a little body and a soul. View quote
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All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to. View quote
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