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Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

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Soul, Contentment, Doe

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

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Letting Go, Truth, Past

Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything.

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Missing, Quality, Looks

Everything is but what we think it.

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Thinking
Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

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Life Is Short, Life Is
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.43, Modern Library

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

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Time, Past, Two
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

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Advice, Done
Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.47, Everyman's Library

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

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Wisdom, Attitude, Bother

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

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Reading, Writing, Men

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

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Ignorance, Vanity, Principles
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.

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Gone, Conform
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book IV, Chapter 45), circa 170.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

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Change, Decay, Common

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).

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

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Ontology, Infinity, Logic

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

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Men, Omission, Religion

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

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"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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Friendship, Nature, Philosophical

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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Life, Character, Dignity
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (32), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something

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Done, Undone, Persons

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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Time, Philosophical, Men

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

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Pride, Fortune, Reluctance
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Thomas Gataker (1749). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.307

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children.

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Children, Names, Opinion
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

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Life, Change, Opinion
Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.19, Everyman's Library

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

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Strength, Men, Dust

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

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Running, Men, Atheism
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.22, Lulu.com

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