Marcus Aurelius

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Name: Marcus Aurelius
Born: 04/26/0121
Died: 03/17/0180 (58 years old)

Marcus Aurelius (/ɔːˈriːliəs, ɔːˈriːljəs/; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.

Alias: Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus Caesar, See section Name for details

Birth Place: Rome

Death Place: Vindobona or Sirmium

Source: Wikipedia

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Each day provides its own gifts.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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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.
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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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.'
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
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