Try to be a man who clearly considered his experience and his skill in expounding philosophical principles as the smallest of his merits

Bits from Meditations

Offence which is committed with pleasure is more blameable than which is committed with pain.The Person who has been first wronged and through pain is compelled to be angry; but the other is moved by his own impulse to do wrong, being carried towards doing something by desire.

For the present is the same to all, through that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment.For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can anyone take this from him?

Present Is Same To All

For to be vexed at anything that happens.Turn towards someone with the intention of injuring.When it's overpowered by pleasure or by pain.Does or says anything insincerely and untruly.When it allows any act of its own to be without an aim.

The Soul Of A Man Does Violence To Itself

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Meditations (Medieval Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, romanized: Ta eis he'auton, lit. 'things to one's self') is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known, noncontemporaneously, as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calmness and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD.

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Present Is Same To All

The Soul Of A Man Does Violence To Itself

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