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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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Life, Kindness, Fate

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

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Hurt, Judgement, I Am Hurt
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1944). “The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

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Fall, Air, Stones

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

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Change, Order, World
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

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Madmen, Pursue, Impossibility

In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

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Men, Use, May
Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.90, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

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Running, Thinking, Dust

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

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Men, Wish, Despise
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.121, Enhanced Media Publishing

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

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Dream, Reality, Views

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

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Remember, Advantage, Happens
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

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Children, War, Holiday

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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Opinion, Transformation, Life Is
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.22, Enhanced Media Publishing

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

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Umpires, Majority, Too Much

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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Change, Things Change, Universe
"Meditations".

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

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Meditation, Soul, Littles
"Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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Taken, Opinion, Harm

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

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Endurance, Substance, Buried
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 14,

When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

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Morning, Men, World
Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

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Arrogance, Let It Go, Wealth
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.57, Enhanced Media Publishing

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

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Men, Thinking, Wind

Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the filth of life on the ground.

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Running, Stars, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.111, Penguin UK

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

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Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

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Retirement, Space, Soul

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

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Names, Blame, Forget

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