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Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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To seek what is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the bad should not do something of this kind.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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To shrug it all off and wipe it clean--every annoyance and distraction--and reach utter stillness. Child's play.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book V
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Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book IV
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So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book IV
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It's unfortunate that this has happened. No. It's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it—not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could have happened to anyone. But not everyone could have remained unharmed by it.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book IV
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To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.
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Book IV
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“Those who have forgotten where the road leads.” “They are at odds with what is all around them”—the all-directing logos. And “they find alien what they meet with every day.”
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Book IV
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book IV
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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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Book IV
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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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Book IV
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Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book IV
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