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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 6.

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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 10.

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Mankind have been created for the sake of one another.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 8.

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Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

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We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 12.

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Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part.

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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.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 2.

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

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 2.

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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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Time is a violent torrent; 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.

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Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what’s left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Whatever befalls you was prepared for you beforehand from eternity, and the thread of causes was spinning from everlasting both your existence and this which befalls you.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 10.

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

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All that is in harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

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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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Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud.
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

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Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra [The Diamond Sutra]. c. 868.

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The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine. Counterpoint, 2002.

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Uncomplicate yourself.

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