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I consist of a little body and a soul.
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Citations by Marcus Aurelius
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The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.
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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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Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.
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If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be.
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Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
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It is not given to a cylinder to move everywhere by its own motion, nor yet to water nor to fire nor to anything else which is governed by nature or an irrational soul, for the things which check them and stand in the way are many. But intelligence and reason are able to go through everything that opposes them, and in such manner as they are formed by nature and as they choose. Place before thy eyes this facility with which the reason will be carried through all things, as fire upwards, as a stone downwards, as a cylinder down an inclined surface, and seek for nothing further. For all other obstacles either affect the body only, which is a dead thing; or, except for opinion and the yielding of reason itself, they do not crush nor do any harm of any kind; for if they did, he who felt it would immediately become bad.
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About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
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