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Marcus Aurelius
Ancient Rome
26 Apr 121 // 17 Mar 180
Roman Emperor
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On Poverty:
Poverty is the mother of crime
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On Soul:
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul
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On Mind:
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life
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On Event:
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear
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On Future:
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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On Estimation:
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect
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On Glory:
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability
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On Man:
Men exist for the sake of one another
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On Past:
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too
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On Mind:
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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