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This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.

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Fate, Perfection, Each Day

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

Marcus Aurelius
Judgement, Today, Circumstances
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1968). “(Markou Antoninou autokratoros Ta eis heauton): The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

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Mind, Wish, Affair
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

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Ridiculous, Strange, Surprise
Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

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Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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Taken, Complaining, Harm
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

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Heart, Men, Leisure

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

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Jobs, Mean, Purpose
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

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Destiny, Causes, May
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.77, Courier Corporation

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Marcus Aurelius
Morning, Ungrateful, Arrogant
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.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

Marcus Aurelius
Pain, Stress, Hands
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.76, Modern Library

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Marcus Aurelius
Life, Positive, Able
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.139, Modern Library

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

Marcus Aurelius
Struggle, Meditation, Release

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

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Pain, Attitude, Thinking

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Vines, Deeds
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

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Eye, Healthy, Wish
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.116, Enhanced Media Publishing

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Marcus Aurelius
Change, Life Changing, Understanding
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1963). “The Meditations”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence
Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

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Lying, Character, Men

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius
Inspirational, Life, Work
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.9, Courier Corporation

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Talking, Good Man
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.137, Modern Library

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Peculiar, Duty
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (22), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Marcus Aurelius
Foundation, Matter
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.214, tredition

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Marcus Aurelius
Revenge, Imitation, Refrain

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Marcus Aurelius
Words Of Wisdom, Connections, All Things
Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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