The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of...

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. Never esteem anything as of...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which...

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which...

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but...

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but...

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of...

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves hinking people respond automatically to...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves hinking people respond automatically to...