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Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. – Marcus Aurelius

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius

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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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power
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. – Bertolt Brecht

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Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. – Buddha

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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. – Aristotle

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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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