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• Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

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  Fate, May, Welcome

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• Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

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  Nature, Opportunity, May

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• Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

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  Power, Sobriety, Grumbling

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• Remember that all is opinion.

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  Criticism, Opinion, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (15), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

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  Inspirational, Power, Judging

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• In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

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  Morning, Rising, World

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

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  Pain, Evil, Sin

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• The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

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  Inspirational, Fire, Flames

  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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• Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.

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  Inspirational, People, Tears

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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  Destiny, Woven, Needs

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• Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

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  Happiness, Perfection, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), James Thomson (gent.) (1766). “The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Translated from the Greek, by Mr. Thomson”, p.99

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• He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

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  Solitude, Danger, Alone Life

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• Do not be ashamed of help.

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  Helping, Ashamed

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• The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.

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  This Life, Worthless

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.80, Modern Library

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• The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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  Memories, Overwhelmed

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

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  Blessed, Men, Dying

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• To expect an impossibility is madness.

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  Madness, Impossibility

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

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  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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  Myth, Turns, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

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  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Self Confidence

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.50, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

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  Life Is, Persons

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• Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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  Death, Science, Perception

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• Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

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  Life, Motivational, Success

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (19), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

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  Country, Art, 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.38, Enhanced Media Publishing

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