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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK FOUR
...which happen, that it always easily adapts itself to that which is and is presented to it. For it requires no definite material, but it moves towards its...
...thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on each side of the present, and the...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK EIGHT, 32-61
...remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest it, and...
...44. See that thou secure this present time to thyself: for those who rather pursue posthumous fame do consider that the men of after time will be exactly...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWELVE, 1-18
...notice of all the past, and trust the future to providence, and direct the present only conformably to piety and justice. Conformably to piety, that thou...
...surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show. 3. The things are three of which thou...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWO
...a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. 3. All that is from the gods is full...
...the bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and dead they...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TWELVE, 19-36
...is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that every man lives the present time only, and loses only this. 27. Constantly bring to thy recollection...
...greatly about anything, those who have been most conspicuous by the greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind: then think where...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK SIX
...of tongues. Suppose then that thou hast given up this worthless thing called fame, what remains that is worth valuing? This in my opinion, to move...
...are done with reference to the present; for as to the future and the past activities of the mind, even these are for the present indifferent. 33. Neither...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK SEVEN, 1-35
...6. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. 7. Be...
...be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest for present things. 9. All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK THREE
...he will be able to look on with chaste eyes; and many such things will present themselves, not pleasing to every man, but to him only who has become...
...the nook of the earth where he lives; and short too the longest posthumous fame, and even this only continued by a succession of poor human beings, who...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK FIVE
...1. In he morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present- I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am...
...it when it is said of wealth, and of the means which further luxury and fame, as said fitly and wittily. Go on then and ask if we should value and think...
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, BOOK TEN, 1-13
...with whom thou mayest live in harmony? But wilt thou be satisfied with thy present condition, and pleased with all that is about thee, and wilt thou...
...or painful sensations of the flesh, and above that poor thing called fame, and death, and all such things. If, then, thou maintainest thyself in the...
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