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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.

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Taken, Opinion, Harm

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When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.

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Morning, Men, World

Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

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Time, Men, Gone

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Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

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Wise, Heart, Men

Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

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Life, Attitude, Positivity

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The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

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World, Opinion, This Life

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.54, Diversion Books

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Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

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Retirement, Space, Soul

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Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

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Money, Men, Dresses

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Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.

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Men, Thinking, Wind

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Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

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Water, Wave, Break

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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

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Nature, Philosophical, Men

Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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Give full attention and devotion to each act.

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Giving, Advice, Attention

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No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Happens

Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.82, Modern Library

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Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

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Death, Maturity, Thoughtful

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In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

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Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

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Inspirational, Ambition, Mean

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

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Death, Philosophical, Dying

Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

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Wise, Cutting, Men

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.93, Enhanced Media Publishing

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It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

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Judgement, Mind, Form

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The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

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Revenge, Wrath, Needs

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.13, Diversion Books

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Let every action aim solely at the common good.

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Action, Common, Aim

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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

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Life, Thinking, Looks

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (29), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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Love, Nature, Fate

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Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Marcus Aurelius

Reading, Writing, Able

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.126, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

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Too Late, Harmony, Thee

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.18, Lulu.com

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Born: April 26, 121
Died: March 17, 180
Occupation: Roman emperor
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