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Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

Marcus Aurelius
Campaigns, Strange, Life Is

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Marcus Aurelius
Adversity, Helping, Harmony
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.70, Modern Library

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...

Marcus Aurelius
Philosophical, Form, Everlasting
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Marcus Aurelius
Together, Gone, Already Gone
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.44, Enhanced Media Publishing

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Marcus Aurelius
Bears, Remains, Remove

Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

Marcus Aurelius
Fire, Events, Needs
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.37, Modern Library

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Headstone, Gravestone
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.33, Enhanced Media Publishing

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Ephemeral, Remember
Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.31, OUP Oxford

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.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Inspirational, Change
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.20, Lulu.com

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Soul, Live Well

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Believe, Heaven
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

Marcus Aurelius
Taken, Asking, Firsts
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.156, Penguin UK

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Transformation, Wave
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.102, Enhanced Media Publishing

Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.

Marcus Aurelius
Elements, Birth, Mystery
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Suits, Every Man
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Past, Years

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Fate, Spun

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Marcus Aurelius
Passing Away, Existence, Non Existence
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 4,

Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Marcus Aurelius
Soul, Leisure, Inward
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.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

Marcus Aurelius
Cheerful, Reason, Tranquil
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.111, Enhanced Media Publishing

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

Marcus Aurelius
Littles, Found, Certainty
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

Marcus Aurelius
Acceptance, Judgement, Events
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.119, Modern Library

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Men, Years

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Marcus Aurelius
Vanity, Fame, Everlasting
"The meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Book by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jeremy Collier, archive.org. 1887.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

Marcus Aurelius
Ashes, Too Late, Glory

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