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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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Happiness, Care, Virtue

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.193

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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

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Pain, Imagination, Mind

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.42, Lulu.com

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People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.

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People, Mind, Different

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Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.

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Soul, Littles, Wheels

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

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Substance, Gimlets, Individual

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.60, Lulu.com

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Always follow these two rules: first, act only on what your reasoning mind proposes for the good of humanity, and second, change your opinion if someone shows you it's wrong. This change of mind must proceed only from the conviction that it's both correct and for the common good, but not because it will give you pleasure and make you popular.

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Two, Giving, Community

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Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Marcus Aurelius

Wisdom, Encouragement, Lost Love

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Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

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Strong, Men, Perfect

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.21, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

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Men, Bird, Spiders

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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Philosophical, Men, Live Well

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A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

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Men, Unnecessary, Should

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Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

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Motivational, Golf, Self Improvement

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He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

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Lying, Gentleman, Would Be

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 2,

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The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

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Soul, Pure, One Thing

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One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

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Life, Solitude, Mind

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There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

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Opportunity, Clouds, Gone

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Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.

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Stopping, Flesh, Way

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VI, 28,

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What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

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Art, Exercise, Opportunity

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

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Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected.

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Mean, Successful, 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.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

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Satisfaction, Satisfied

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

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Dream, Land, Rivers

Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.54, Penguin UK

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Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

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Way, Bears, Happens

Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

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Color, Doe, Emeralds

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

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Beautiful, Law, Needs

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.42, Enhanced Media Publishing

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How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

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Self Improvement, Wickedness, Ridiculous

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