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When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
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life
inspirational
seize-the-day
carpe-diem
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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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fear
death
inspirational
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Marcus Aurelius |
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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life
inspirational
attitude
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cd9070f
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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.
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future
reason
inspirational
stoic
equanimity
worry
stoicism
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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inspirational
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Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
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inspirational
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e7f9968
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
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integrity
inspirational
gossip
comparison
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7c20156
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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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goodness
wisdom
inspirational
self-actualization
being
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a8cdae8
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Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
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inspirational
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Marcus Aurelius |
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b3f935c
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Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
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goodness
death
inspirational
charity
help
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0fff19e
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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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inspirational
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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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work
life
inspirational
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624ab8f
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The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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23bc72b
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I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.
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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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1213673
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But that which is useful is the better.
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2496575
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
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42a54c3
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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b6f189a
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This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...
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30cffbf
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You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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909a7af
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The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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701fabd
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Remember that all is opinion.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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e0e85fd
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What means all this?
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Marcus Aurelius |
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2470925
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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734f243
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For we carry our fate with us -- and it carries us. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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8f40a1f
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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fe32c70
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Choose what's best.--Best is what benefits me. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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11d74da
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Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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3cccf7f
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Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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83df1c9
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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1dccbb6
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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ee9c43d
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Disturbance comes only from within--from our own perceptions. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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e2a48e2
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The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception." (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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d23edcb
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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1bce1b5
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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108a8f0
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You have a mind? --Yes. Well, why not use it? (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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b01ee18
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Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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f816a64
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Let your occupations be few," says the sage, "if you would lead a tranquil life."
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Marcus Aurelius |
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3a78a6e
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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ac84510
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You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. (Hays translation)
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Marcus Aurelius |
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12ba31d
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All is ephemeral -- fame and the famous as well.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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e14dd94
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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9624585
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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
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Marcus Aurelius |
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809d2e6
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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