Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

What are you, apart from that better and divine part of yourself, but as Epictetus said well, a wretched soul stuck carrying a dead body around?

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Knowing Yourself Human Nature
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

What art thou, that better and divine part excepted, but as Epictetus said well, a wretched soul, appointed to carry a carcass up and down?

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Always remember that the world is one living thing with one soul. All things in the world share one awareness and move together as if by one mind's decision. Everything that exists helps cause everything else to exist. All things are connected in a chain.

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Human Nature Calm Your Mind
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance, and having but one soul, and how all things in the world, are terminated into one sensitive power; and are done by one general motion as it were, and deliberation of that one soul; and how all things that are, concur in the cause of one another's being, and by what manner of connection and concatenation all things happen.

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