"Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

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"Why, what can take place without change?" — Marcus Aurelius, Book VII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Such is everything." — Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Shall I repent of it?" — Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"It is not possible." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For all such things as these "are produced in the season of spring," as the poet says; then the wind casts them down; then the forest produces other leaves in their places." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Every man's life is sufficient.+ But thine is nearly finished, though thy soul reverences not itself, but places thy felicity in the souls of others." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"When thou art offended with any man's shameless conduct, immediately ask thyself, Is it possible, then, that shameless men should not be in the world?" — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"And all this thou mayst allow thyself, if thy nature, so far as thou art a rational animal, shall not be made worse by it." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"But what I have said is not enough, unless this also is added, what this object ought to be." — Marcus Aurelius, Book XI #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"And reverence of the daemon consists in keeping it pure from passion and thoughtlessness, and dissatisfaction with what comes from gods and men." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"But in the things which are still superior, even though they are separated from one another, unity in a manner exists, as in the stars." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man--to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"Live as on a mountain." — Marcus Aurelius, Book X #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion." — Marcus Aurelius, Book II #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations

"For this man also is one of those shameless men who must of necessity be in the world." — Marcus Aurelius, Book IX #Stoicism #DailyStoic #MarcusAurelius #Meditations