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• Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

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  Men, Past, Soul

  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.130, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

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  Men, Soul, Littles

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• Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

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  Cutting, Reason, Rational

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (51), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

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  Loss, Different, Kind

  Marcus Aurelius (1915). “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.227, Рипол Классик

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• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Way

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• This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole.

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  Mind, Bears, Whole

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

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  Doe, Source, Mankind

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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  Philosophical, Vivid Imagination, Understanding

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• All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

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  Providence

  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.24, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

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  Death, May, Thee

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• The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.

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  Principles, Causes, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.71, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole,
  and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what
  kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one
  who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are
  according to the nature of which thou art a part.

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  Art, Mind, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.23, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

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  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

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  Death, Men, Names

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• Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

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  Friendly, Connections, Way

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

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• No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

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  Art, Nature, Natural

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, XI, 10. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

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  People, Purpose, Impulse

  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.110, Modern Library

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• Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present
  thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

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  Skills, Stealing, 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.41, Lulu.com

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• No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Life, Family

  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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• Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

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  Thee, Occasions, Asks

  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.114, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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  Expression, Order, Principles

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• Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

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  Joy, Rift, Deeds

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book XII, 29,

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• Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

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  Simple, Men, Thinking

  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.49, 德威國際文化

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• If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.

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  Law, Mind, Citizens

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

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  Life, Men, Soul

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1920). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: In English”

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