“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Calm quote

Emperor · 121 – 180

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, author of the Meditations.

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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

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