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The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

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Made
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.94, Modern Library

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

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Soul, Deep Within

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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Integrity, Years, Over You
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

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Bothering You, Endless Time, Hands
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.38, Modern Library

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

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Power To Change, Dues, Ifs

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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Love, Family, Happiness

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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Philosophical, Ambition, Men

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

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Home, Men, House

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

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Imagination, Crushed, Whole
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.108, Modern Library

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'

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Past, Mind, Endurance
Marcus Aurelius (1997). “Meditations”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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Be Good
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

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Good Person, Ends, Should

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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Inspirational, Fire, Flames
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.62, Lulu.com

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

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Solitude, Danger, Alone Life

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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Myth, Turns, All Things
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.72, Penguin UK

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

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Blessed, Men, Dying

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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Destiny, Woven, Needs

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

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Men, Mind, Done

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

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Forever, Flow, Fountain

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

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Morning, Rising, World
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.

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Good Life, Men, Fearless

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

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Nature, Opportunity, May

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

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Inspirational, Life, Happiness

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

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Positive, Success, Business
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

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Soul, Mind, World
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.46, Modern Library

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