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Remember that to change thy opinion and to follow him who corrects thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist in thy error.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VIII
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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VIII
Humanities Books
Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VIII
Humanities Books
You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VIII
Humanities Books
On the occasion of every act ask thyself, How is this with respect to me? Shall I repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VIII
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books
The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books
Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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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.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
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If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book VII
Humanities Books