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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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

We are the other of the other

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How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

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Peace, Humanity, Easy

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

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Love, Learning, Littles
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 31,

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

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Men, Able, Sound
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.20, Enhanced Media Publishing

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

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Confused, Confusion, Confusing
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (51), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.

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Inspirational, Perseverance, Attitude
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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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Together, Events, Way
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.77, Modern Library

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

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Hurt, Pain, Doe

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).

Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You dont love yourself enough. Or youd love your nature too and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. They even forget to wash and eat.

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Drinking, Love You, Sleep

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

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Eye, Hands, Feet

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

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Over You, Lasts, Return

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

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Hands, Forgotten

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

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Powerful, Acceptance, Men

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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Meditation, Sake, Bears

To expect an impossibility is madness.

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

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

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Fear, Philosophy, Philosophical

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

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Running, Gratitude, Philosophical

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

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Ideas, Utterance, Sticks
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.217, Modern Library

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

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Happy Birthday, Flower, Years

He who eats my bread, does my will.

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Hard Work, Bread, Doe

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).

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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Justice, Truth And Justice, Values

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

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Mules, Drivers, Happened
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.74, Modern Library

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