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• My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

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  Self, True Self

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• How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

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  Peace, Humanity, Easy

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• When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

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  Over You, Lasts, Return

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• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Connections, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.63, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

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  Soul, Mind, Desire

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.34, Modern Library

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• 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

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• The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

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  Death, Dying, Tests

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• How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

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  Together, Gone, Already Gone

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.44, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.

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  Powerful, Acceptance, Men

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• It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

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  Perfect, Mind, Desire

  "Treasures of Love & Inspiration". Book by Marjorie Barrows, p. 278, 1993.

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• Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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  Life, Strength, Believe

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), Gerald Henry Rendall (1907). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself: in English”

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• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

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  Love, Men, Others Opinions

  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.129, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

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  Bears, Fortune, Good Fortune

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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

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  Foundation, Matter

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

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• Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

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  Ideas, Utterance, Sticks

  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.217, Modern Library

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• Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Light

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• The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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  Life, Philosophical, Dying

  Marcus Aurelius (2011). “Meditations: with selected correspondence”, p.47, OUP Oxford

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• Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.

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  Morning, Snow, Joy

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• It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

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  Men, Satisfaction

  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.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

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  Mean, Order, Mind

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

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  Letting Go, Truth, Past

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• Truth and ceremony are two things.

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  Two, Flattery, Ceremony

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1701). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself”, p.211

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

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  Change, Things Change, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No one wearies of benefits received.

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  Benefits

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.81, Delphi Classics

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• Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Live For Today, Too Late

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