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When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself. For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.

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Art, Men, Errors

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book X, 30,

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The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

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Horse, Men, Broken

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1862). “The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius”, p.106

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Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

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Moving, Views, Needs

Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

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Self, Return, Gains

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When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

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Morning, Men, Action

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All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

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Art, Mutation, Destruction

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.100, Enhanced Media Publishing

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When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us.

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Nature, Ties, Faults

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

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Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

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Justice, Done, Movement

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.143, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

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Beauty, Kindness, Law

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IV, 20,

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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

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Adversity, Bitterness, Bears

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Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

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Giving Up, Giving, Stills

"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 7. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

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Disposition, Genuine, Invincible

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Man is born for deeds of kindness.

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Kindness, Men, Deeds

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Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

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Country, Thinking, Alarms

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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Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

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Rivers, Events, Violent

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.46, Enhanced Media Publishing

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I consist of a little body and a soul.

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Soul, Body, Littles

Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.41, Enhanced Media Publishing

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All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.

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Refuse, Ifs, Thyself

Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.122, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

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Understanding, Attention, Said

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.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

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Fate, Men, Universal

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

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Work, Men, Light

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My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

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Mean, Rome, Cities

Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.79, Modern Library

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In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

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Moving, Exercise, Arrows

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.95, Enhanced Media Publishing

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Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

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Art, Destiny, 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.27, Lulu.com

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That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".

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Fall, Elements, Ifs

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.87, Enhanced Media Publishing

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People exist for one another.

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People

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.229, Modern Library

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