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No printed sources exist for this prior to 2009, and this seems to have been an attribution which arose on the internet, as indicated by web searches and rationales provided at "Marcus Aurelius and source checking" at Three Shouts on a Hilltop (14 June 2011) http://threeshoutsonahilltop.blogspot.com/2011/06/marcus-aurelius-and-source-checking.html This quote may be a paraphrase of Meditations, Book II: Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil Misattributed

“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…”

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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII, 64

“Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”

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IV, 32
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; “I am rising to a man’s work.””

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Meditations. v. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“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.”

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

“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”

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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 8

“You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves. (Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?) (Hays translation)”

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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII, 53

“All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.”

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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII, 1

“If…it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.”

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VIII, 45
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind.”

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

“We are all made for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth, from whence it follows that clashing and opposition is perfectly unnatural.”

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II, 1
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

“What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it.”

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Hays translation
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
II, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

“Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”

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VIII, 22
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”

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VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.”

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τί λοιπὸν ἢ ἀπολαύειν τοῦ ζῆν συνάπτοντα ἄλλο ἐπ ἄλλῳ ἀγαθόν, ὥστε μηδὲ τὸ βραχύτατον διάστημα ἀπολείπειν;
XII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII

“All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.”

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IV, 44
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it is the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness”

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of deserting his post
VII, 45
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it.”

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Alternate Translation: Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X, 5