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• Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

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  Heart, Men, Giving

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• Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

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  Inspirational, Character, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Taken

  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.33, Lulu.com

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• The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

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  Moved, Universe

  MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS”

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• Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind

  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.230, Modern Library

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• The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

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  Change, Spiritual, Whole

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• All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

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  Summer, Spring, Rose

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 44,

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• Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

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  Community, Action, Social

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• The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

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  Revenge, Injury, Revenue

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• When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

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  Needs, Done, Benefits

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• Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse.

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  Add, Praise

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

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  Lying, Inspiration, Mean

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Men, Thinking

  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.39, Lulu.com

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• The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

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  Peace, Ubuntu, Justice

  馬可•奧里略 (Marcus Aurelius) (2014). “沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著”, p.146, 德威國際文化

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• A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

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  Luck, Chance, Constant

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• In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.

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  Dream, Dark, Men

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• Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

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  Pain, Unhappy, Crushed

  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.47, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

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  Color, Doe, Tasks

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid
  thyself of, when thou wilt.

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  Grief, Causes, Opinion

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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• Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead.

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  Art, Men, Life Is

  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.123, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

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  Wise, Men, Principles

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (38), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

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  Effort, Normal, Philosopher

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• When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

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  Morning, Bed, Defining

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.103, Modern Library

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• Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

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  Animal, Given, Rational

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.75, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

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  Change, Men, Universal

  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.38, Lulu.com

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