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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

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Dog, Light, Crumbling

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Done, Harm
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.67, Enhanced Media Publishing

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

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Wish, Poverty, Poor

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

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Age, Lapses, Literature

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

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Way, Human Nature, Wrong Time
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.195, Modern Library

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

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Vex, Spirit, Courses

Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.

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Release, Thee, Satisfied
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Marcus Aurelius
Death, If There Is A God, Wells

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Art, Anger

Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life.

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

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

Marcus Aurelius
Elements, Movement, Way
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.63, Enhanced Media Publishing

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Marcus Aurelius
Truth, Men
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

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Children, Moving, Two
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.91, Modern Library

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Marcus Aurelius
Past, Existence, Carried Away

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

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Change, Things Change, All Things

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

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

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

Marcus Aurelius
Years, May, Common
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work.

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Laughing, Demand, Cucumbers
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.111, Modern Library

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

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Fire, Self, Doe

What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

Marcus Aurelius
Children, Men, Tyrants
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

Marcus Aurelius
Atoms, Elements, Earth
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.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

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Men, Use, May
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.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

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Simple, Soul, Naked
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.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.

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Gone, Littles, Repent
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.44, Lulu.com

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Marcus Aurelius
Boys, Principles, Atoms

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