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Action(s)
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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Adversity
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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.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Advice
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Agreement
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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
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Anger
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Assumptions
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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.9
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Change
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Character
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Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each moment in peace.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Choice
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He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds good not only in great matters, but also in very small, in fighting by the frozen Danube and in starting the day early.
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Concentration
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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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Conservation
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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Control
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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
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Death
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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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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Endurance
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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Enjoyment
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Where a man can live, he can also live well.
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Evil
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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
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Fame
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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Fate & Destiny
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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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Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
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Fear
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Future, The
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Books by and about Marcus Aurelius