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• I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain

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• The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

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  Strong, Men, Bystanders

  MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS”

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• The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

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  Remember, Advantage, Happens

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

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• Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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  Motivation, Work, Half

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• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

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  Art, Pain, Complaining

  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.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

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  Soul, Unhappy, Causes

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• Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.

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  Generations, Fleeting, Duration

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• The intelligence of the universe is social.

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  Social, Universe

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.54, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

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  Two, People, Flattery

  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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• All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

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  Drama, Events, Different

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 27,

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• Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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  Life, Kindness, Fate

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• Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

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  Dream, Reality, Views

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• Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

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  Hurt, Judgement, I Am Hurt

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1944). “The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

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• Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

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  Children, War, Holiday

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• Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

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  Men, Wish, Despise

  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.121, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

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  Opinion, Transformation, Life Is

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.22, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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  Change, Things Change, Universe

  "Meditations".

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• Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

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  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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• You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

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  Meditation, Soul, Littles

  "Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

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• All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

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  Endurance, Substance, Buried

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 14,

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• The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

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  Fall, Air, Stones

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• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both
  better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

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  Men, Use, May

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.90, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

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  Change, Order, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities .

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  Madmen, Pursue, Impossibility

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