Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."	Ability, Happiness, Joy
"Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."	Age
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."	Argument, Conflict, Evil
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."	Beginnings, Death, Fear
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."	Doubt, History, Lies
"To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it."	Glory, Honor, Knowledge
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."	Love, Men
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."	Men, Retirement
"Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."	Evil, Good, Life
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."	Ability, Life, Power
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."	Acceptance, Art, Destiny
"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."	Change, Darkness, Light
"Remember this[,] very little is needed to make a happy life."	Happiness, Joy, Life
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."	Evil, Good, Monarchy
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."	Friends, Men, Power
"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already."	Reading
"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them."	Education, Men, School
"Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good."	Death, Evil, Good
"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."	Desires, Lies, Wants
"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."	Miscellaneous
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Argument	Art	Beginnings
Change	Character	Conflict
Darkness	Death	Desires
Destiny	Doubt	Education
Evil	Fate	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Glory
Good	Habits	Happiness
History	Honor	Intentions
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Nature	Patience
Power	Reading	Retirement
School	Sin	Strength
Teaching	Time	Virtue
Wants	War	Wisdom