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• Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

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  Inspirational, Water, Cliffs

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

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• Everything that happens, happens as it should.

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  Should, Happens

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• Love the people with whom fate brings you together

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  Valentines Day, Fate, Destiny

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• Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

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  Nature, Evil

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

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• Live each day as if it be your last.

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  Time, Each Day, Lasts

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• The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

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  Words Of Wisdom, Enemy, Kind

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.35, Everyman's Library

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

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  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.

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  Connections, Citizens, Ethics

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• If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.

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  Stupid, People, Atoms

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.104, Modern Library

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• Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  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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• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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  Be Good

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

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  Made

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.94, Modern Library

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• Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

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  Purpose, Done, Should

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• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

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  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

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  Thinking, Doe, Attention

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• If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

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  Live Life, Past, Serenity

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• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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  Happiness, Peace, Philosophical

  Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (Pt. 2, Ch. 2), 1995.

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• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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  Integrity, Years, Over You

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

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  Soul, Deep Within

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• In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

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  Gratitude, Sadness, Expression

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• The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.

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  Perception, World, Life Is

  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.133, Modern Library

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• Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Loss

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• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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  War, Philosophical, Future

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