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But that which is useful is the better.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
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A man should be upright, not kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
Humanities Books
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
Humanities Books
For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
Humanities Books
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
Humanities Books
...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
Humanities Books
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book III
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
Humanities Books
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
Marcus Aurelius
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Book II
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