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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them.

Marcus Aurelius

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How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

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That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.

- Book VI, 54.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

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Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

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What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.