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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.' Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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