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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Men, Universal
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.38, Lulu.com

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Soul, Littles

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Marcus Aurelius
Cutting, Reason, Rational
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (51), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

Marcus Aurelius
Loss, Different, Kind
Marcus Aurelius (1915). “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.227, Рипол Классик

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius
Beauty, Beautiful, Way

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole.

Marcus Aurelius
Mind, Bears, Whole
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

Marcus Aurelius
Doe, Source, Mankind
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Marcus Aurelius
Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Marcus Aurelius
Providence
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.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, May, Thee

The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.

Marcus Aurelius
Principles, Causes, Common
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.71, Enhanced Media Publishing

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.

Marcus Aurelius
Art, Mind, Bears
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

Marcus Aurelius
Beautiful, Cutting, Men
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, Men, Names

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Marcus Aurelius
Art, Nature, Natural
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, XI, 10. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

Marcus Aurelius
Friendly, Connections, Way
Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Marcus Aurelius
People, Purpose, Impulse
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.110, Modern Library

Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

Marcus Aurelius
Skills, Stealing, Thee
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.41, Lulu.com

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Marcus Aurelius
Love, Life, Family
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.60, Lulu.com

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Marcus Aurelius
Thee, Occasions, Asks
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.114, Enhanced Media Publishing

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Marcus Aurelius
Expression, Order, Principles

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Marcus Aurelius
Joy, Rift, Deeds
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book XII, 29,

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

Marcus Aurelius
Simple, Men, Thinking
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.49, 德威國際文化

If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.

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

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Men, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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