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To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.

To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.

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Men, Giving, Give And Take
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

To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

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Respect, Art, Soul

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

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Men, He Man, Harm
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

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Running, Time, Recovery
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

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Assessment, Flesh, Littles
c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.2, no.2 (translated by M Staniforth).

My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.

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Father, Thinking, Soul And Body
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome) (1887*). “The Meditations: Translated from the Greek”

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.

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Passion, Men, Ignorant
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.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

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Time, Men, Past
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (14), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

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Law, Evolution, Tendencies

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

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Meditation, Doe, Emeralds
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.74, Enhanced Media Publishing

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

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Pain, Men, Evil
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

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Prize, Universe
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

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Thinking, Men, Justice
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

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Life, Philosophical, Giving
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.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

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Moving, Thinking, Soul
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

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Days Gone By, Gone, Virtue

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Art

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

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Art, Simple, Years
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.214, tredition

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

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Morning, Men, Awake

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

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Men, Law, Done

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

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Happiness, Men

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

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Past, Doe, Moments
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.53, Penguin UK

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

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Matter, Causes, Scene
Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

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Strength, Men, Tasks

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

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Reason, Vain, Checks
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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