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Live each day as if it be your last.

Live each day as if it be your last.

Marcus Aurelius
Time, Each Day, Lasts

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Marcus Aurelius
Mind, Failing, Unhappiness
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Marcus Aurelius
Fate, Free Will, Submit

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

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Inspirational, Water, Cliffs
Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

Marcus Aurelius
Stupid, People, Atoms
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

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When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

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Faults, Study, Forget You

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Echoes

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Connections, Citizens, Ethics

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

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Honesty, Pain, Humility
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Marcus Aurelius
Words Of Wisdom, Enemy, Kind
Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.35, Everyman's Library

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

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Truth, Ignorance, Thinking
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

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Death, Time, Hands
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, 17. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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Strong, Time, Passing By
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

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Purpose, Done, Should

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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Life, Happiness, Happy
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

Marcus Aurelius
Live Life, Past, Serenity

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Philosophical, Grief

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Marcus Aurelius
Thinking, Doe, Attention

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom, Mean, Loss

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Happiness, Peace, Philosophical
Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (Pt. 2, Ch. 2), 1995.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

Marcus Aurelius
Perception, World, Life Is
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.133, Modern Library

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

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Goal, Raw Materials, Purpose
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.221, Modern Library

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Marcus Aurelius
War, Philosophical, Future

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