"What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne."
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"Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment."
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"Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet ."
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"It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil."
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"Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live."
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"He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected."
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"We are the other of the other"
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"There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return"
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"The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions."
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"Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all."
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"The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself."
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"Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead."
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"Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within."
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"It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon."
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"But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man."
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"The gods sustain and guide all their works."
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"Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee."
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"Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this."
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"Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish."
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"Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery."
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