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Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

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Earth, Life Is, Moments

How soon will time cover all things.

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All Things
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.36, Lulu.com

All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

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Believe, Thinking, Order

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

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

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

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Justice, Remembrance, Speech
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Education, Learning

How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

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Spiritual, Pain, Lying

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Marcus Aurelius
Silly, People, Trying
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.97, Modern Library

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Marcus Aurelius
Strength, Spring, Emotional

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

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Judgment, Ifs
Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Happiness, Success
"The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 584, 1856.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Marcus Aurelius
Loyalty, Respect, Honesty
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (7), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Love the people with whom fate brings you together

Marcus Aurelius
Valentines Day, Fate, Destiny

One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

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Responsibility, People, Perfect
"The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations".

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

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Stoicism, Thrive, Feels
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.39, Modern Library

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Marcus Aurelius
Enlightenment, Gone, Use

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius
Opinion, Assumption, Judgment
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius
Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone
c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

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Fate, Play, Matter
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

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Nature, Evil
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

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Change, Done, Baths

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Marcus Aurelius
Vanity, Fame, Posthumous

Everything that happens, happens as it should.

Marcus Aurelius
Should, Happens

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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