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Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. – Marcus Aurelius

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