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Meditations (180 AD)
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You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
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Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
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It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
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Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
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Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
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Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.
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Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.
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Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
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When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.
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Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.
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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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If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.
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It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
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Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
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Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
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Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.
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The sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.
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What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.
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Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
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Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
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Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus....
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
April 26, 121
Died:
March 17, 180
(aged 58)
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