Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

All things are connected and woven together. This connection is sacred. Nothing in the world exists without relating to everything else in some natural way. All things are arranged in proper order. Each thing keeps its right place. Together they make one unified world — like a beautiful, ordered whole. Throughout everything there is one order. Through all things there is one God, one substance, one law. There is one shared reason and one shared truth for all thinking beings. There is one perfection that all creatures of the same kind share when they take part in the same reason.

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Calm Your Mind Human Nature
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

All things are linked and knitted together, and the knot is sacred, neither is there anything in the world, that is not kind and natural in regard of any other thing, or, that hath not some kind of reference and natural correspondence with whatsoever is in the world besides. For all things are ranked together, and by that decency of its due place and order that each particular doth observe, they all concur together to the making of one and the same κόσμος or world: as if you said, a comely piece, or an orderly composition. For all things throughout, there is but one and the same order; and through all things, one and the same God, the same substance and the same law. There is one common reason, and one common truth, that belongs unto all reasonable creatures, for neither is there save one perfection of all creatures that are of the same kind, and partakers of the same reason.

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Don't let future troubles worry you. If they must happen, you will face them when they come with the same reason that helps you handle what's in front of you now.

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Calm Your Mind Freedom & Control
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is) be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever is now present, is made both tolerable and acceptable unto thee.

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