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Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

Marcus Aurelius
Heart, Men, Giving

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Character, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy, Philosophical, Taken
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.33, Lulu.com

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Moved, Universe
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS”

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

Marcus Aurelius
Mind
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.230, Modern Library

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Spiritual, Whole

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

Marcus Aurelius
Summer, Spring, Rose
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 44,

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Marcus Aurelius
Community, Action, Social

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

Marcus Aurelius
Revenge, Injury, Revenue

When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

Marcus Aurelius
Needs, Done, Benefits

Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

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

The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

Marcus Aurelius
Lying, Inspiration, Mean
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Plato, Men, Thinking
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.39, Lulu.com

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

Marcus Aurelius
Peace, Ubuntu, Justice
馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.146, 德威國際文化

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Marcus Aurelius
Luck, Chance, Constant

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

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Dream, Dark, Men

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Marcus Aurelius
Pain, Unhappy, Crushed
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.47, Enhanced Media Publishing

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Marcus Aurelius
Color, Doe, Tasks
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.

Marcus Aurelius
Grief, Causes, Opinion
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

Marcus Aurelius
Art, Men, Life Is
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.123, Enhanced Media Publishing

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Marcus Aurelius
Wise, Men, Principles
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (38), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

Marcus Aurelius
Morning, Bed, Defining
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.103, Modern Library

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Marcus Aurelius
Effort, Normal, Philosopher

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

Marcus Aurelius
Animal, Given, Rational
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.75, Enhanced Media Publishing

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Past, Soul
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.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

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