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Marcus Aurelius

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.


— Marcus Aurelius


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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.


— Marcus Aurelius


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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.


— Marcus Aurelius


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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.


— Marcus Aurelius


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He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.


— Marcus Aurelius


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Did you know about Marcus Aurelius?

He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Tutor Fronto and various Antonine officials survives in a series of patchy manuscripts covering the period from c. 138 to 166.

Marcus Aurelius' Stoic tome Meditations written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180 is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

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