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Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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As the nature of the universal has given to every rational being all the powers that it has, so we have received from it this power also. For as the universal nature converts and fixes in its predestined place everything which stands in the way and opposes it, and makes such things a part of itself, so also the rational animal is able to make every hindrance its own material, and to use it for such purpose as it may have designed.
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
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The universal intelligence puts itself in motion for every separate effect... or it puts itself in motion once, and everything else comes by way of a sequence in a manner; or individual elements are the origin of all things. In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou be governed by it.
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How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
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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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Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?
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Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.
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The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
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If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.
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You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?)
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
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Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
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"Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life."
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Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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If... it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Death,—a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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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.
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
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"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
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Born:
April 26, 121
Died:
March 17, 180
(aged 58)
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Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors.
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