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
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
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All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well
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Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
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To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
world flaws imagine worst
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
flaws hidden greater
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough
fortune
You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Gifts are like hooks
gifts
Each day provides its own gifts
gifts day
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
glory
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
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