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“Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” — Marcus Aurelius

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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.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.” — Marcus Aurelius

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