For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius

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