When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself:
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<li>The people I deal with today will be Meddling, Ungrateful, Arrogant, Dishonest, Jealous and Surly.</li>
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#1 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

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<li>They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.</li>
<li>But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine.</li>
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#2 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

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<li>And so none of them can hurt me.</li>
<li>No one can implicate me in ugliness.</li>
<li>Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him.</li>
<li>We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural.</li>
<li>To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.</li>
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This helps me wake up in the morning and get ready for the day. Great stoic wisdom of Marcus Aurelius.

Meditations 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 as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.★ These books have been carefully adapted into Modern English to allow for easy reading. ✓ENJOY

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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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