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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.
V, 9
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

“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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VII, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“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.”

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VII, 54
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“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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VII, 48
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.”

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X, 2
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X

“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.”

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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.
II, 5
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

“Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?”

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VII, 18
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.”

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I, 16
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book I

“Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”

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IV, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“He who does not know what the world is, does not know where he is. And he who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is. But he who has failed in any one of these things could not even say for what purpose he exists himself. What then dost thou think of him who [avoids or] seeks the praise of those who applaud, of men who know not either where they are or who they are?”

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He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.
VIII, 52
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“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.”

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VIII, 13
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.”

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VII, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Contexte: Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

“The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”

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II, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

“The other reason is that what happens to the individual is a cause of well-being in what directs the world--of its well-being, its fulfillment, or its very existence, even. Because the whole is damaged if you cut away anything--anything at all--from its continuity and its coherence. Not only its parts, but its purposes. And that's what you're doing when you complain: hacking and destroying.”

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V, 7
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

“Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.”

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IV, 48
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV