It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
Marcus AureliusTo understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus AureliusThe mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.
Marcus AureliusThe true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
Marcus AureliusAbove, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
Marcus AureliusConstantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.
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