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Confine yourself to the present. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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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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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— 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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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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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? ↗

— Jane Austen

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