Roman Emperor (121-180)
You have power over your mind -- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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Wherever a man lives, he may live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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Remember that all is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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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.
MARCUS AURELIUS
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