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You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control.
— Marcus Aurelius control
Meditations 6.52
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Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.
— Marcus Aurelius adversity
Meditations 11.18
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Objective judgment, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance — now, at this very moment — of all external events.
— Marcus Aurelius action
Meditations 9.6
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Choose not to be harmed — and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed — and you haven't been.
— Marcus Aurelius freedom
Meditations 4.7
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If you are not certain what will happen, prepare for all possibilities.
— Marcus Aurelius fate
Meditations (attrib.)
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It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind.
— Marcus Aurelius freedom
Meditations 7.28
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The universe is transformation; life is opinion.
— Marcus Aurelius fate
Meditations 4.3
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Everything existing is in a manner the seed of what will emerge from it.
— Marcus Aurelius fate
Meditations 4.36
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius virtue
Meditations 10.15
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
— Marcus Aurelius adversity
Meditations 2.17