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"This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs."
Meditations. ii. 2.
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"The ways of the gods are full of providence."
Meditations. ii. 3.
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"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
Meditations. ii. 5.
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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."
Meditations. ii. 5.
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"Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory."
Meditations. ii. 7.
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"No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart."
Meditations. ii. 13.
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"Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth."
Meditations. ii. 14.
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"For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing."
Meditations. ii. 14.
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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."
Meditations. ii. 17.
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"Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal."
Meditations. iii. 4.
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"The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself."
Meditations. iii. 4.
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"Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody."
Meditations. iii. 5.
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
Meditations. iii. 5.
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"Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect."
Meditations. iii. 7.
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"Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments."
Meditations. iii. 9.
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"Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells."
Meditations. iii. 10.
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"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
Meditations. iii. 11.
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"As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two."
Meditations. iii. 13.
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"The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do."
Meditations. iv. 1.
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"Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind."
Meditations. iv. 2.
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"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."
Meditations. iv. 3.
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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it."
Meditations. iv. 3.
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"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Meditations. iv. 3.
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"Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing."
Meditations. iv. 4.
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"Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature."
Meditations. iv. 5.
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"That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within."
Meditations. iv. 8.
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"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch narrowly."
Meditations. iv. 10.
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"Many the lumps of frankincense on the same altar; one falls there early and another late, but it makes no difference."
Meditations. iv. 15.
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"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
Meditations. iv. 17.
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"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
Meditations. iv. 18.
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"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
Meditations. iv. 20.
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"Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty."
Meditations. iv. 20.
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"All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee."
Meditations. iv. 23.
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""Let thine occupations be few," saith the sage, "if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.""
Meditations. iv. 24.
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"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith."
Meditations. iv. 31.
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"Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life."
Meditations. iv. 32.
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"All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well."
Meditations. iv. 35.
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"Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them."
Meditations. iv. 36.
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"Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to."
Meditations. iv. 38.
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; 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."
Meditations. iv. 43.
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"All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer."
Meditations. iv. 44.
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"That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before."
Meditations. iv. 45.
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"Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,--yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth 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."
Meditations. iv. 48.
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"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."
Meditations. iv. 50.
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"Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason."
Meditations. iv. 51.
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"In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; "I am rising to a man's work.""
Meditations. v. 1.
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"A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season."
Meditations. v. 6.
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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."
Meditations. v. 9.
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"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."
Meditations. v. 18.
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"Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything."
Meditations. v. 21.
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