book 1,2,3 Flashcards

M.Aurelius

1
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To be the same in all circumstances.

A

intense pain lost of a child, chronic illness

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2
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A man can show both.

A

The strength and flexibility.

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3
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Kindness.

A

To show intuitive sympathy to friends, tolerance to amateurs.

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4
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Not to display?

A

Anger and other emotions.

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5
Q

To be free of

A

passion and yet full of love.

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6
Q

Not to be constantly telling people?

A

That I’m too busy unless I’m really busy.

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7
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Not to shrug off…

A

a friend’s resentment even if it is unjustified resentment. Try to put up with it and make things good again.

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8
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To love

A

my family, justice, and truth.

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9
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Not to be.

A

pessimistic, and never to doubt your friend’s affection for you.

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10
Q

Personality in balance.

A

Dignity and grace together.

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11
Q

Other people were certain that what he said was.

A

What he did was done without malice / ill will/.

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12
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Path. The sense of.

A

Staying on a path rather than being kept on a path.

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13
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A kind of single-mindedness, almost, never content with

A

first impression

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14
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His —– to friends and never

A

constancy, fed up with them.

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15
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The way to handle the material comforts.

A

Without arrogance and without apology.

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16
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His willingness to take adequate care of himself.

A

Not a hypochondriac, or obsessed with his appearance.

17
Q

What have wrongdoers common with me?

A

The same mind and the same share of the divine.

18
Q

Whatever this what I’m?

A

The flesh, the spirit, and intelligence.

19
Q

If you were dying right now?

A

Despise your flash.

20
Q

Spirit is an?

A

Air and never the same air.

21
Q

Intelligence thing about it as?

A

You are an old man.

22
Q

Stop allowing your mind to?

A

To be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses,

to kick against the present and distrust the future.

23
Q

What is the world maintained by?

A

The change in the elements and in the things that compose.

24
Q

Limited time.

A

You have been assigned a limited time. You have been putting it for a long time. It is time to free yourself otherwise your time will be gone soon.

25
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Concentration.

A

Concentrate every minute like a Roman. You can. Do what you doing as it would be the last thing done before you die. Avoid distractions. Do not let emotions overrun you. Stop being hypocritical, self-centered, and irritable.

26
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Don’t ever forget these things.

A

The nature of the world.
Your nature.
You are part of a world. What proportion you are of it?
How do I relate to the world?
No one can stop me to act in the harmony of nature.

27
Q

You could leave life right now.

A

ere is no harm on the opposite side. If there would be the gods would give us the ability to avoid it.

28
Q

Nothing is pathetic more then?

A

People running in a cycle. Divine deserves our respect. Humans deserve our affection because they are like me.

29
Q

The present.

A

The presence is the same for everyone. It is loss same for everyone. You can not lose what you do not have. You can not lose past or future.

30
Q

No matter how long you live remember two things.

A

Everything is repeating.

Those who live long and those who live short can only lose the present.

31
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To get the most out of ourselves we need our minds.

A

We need to hurry up to understand the world. Each day we move closer to death.

32
Q

If to nothingness.

A

Then you no longer have to put up with pain and pleasure. Your body is so much inferior to that which serves it.

33
Q

Don’t waste the time your here worrying.

A

About others people - unless it affects the common good.

34
Q

Do not get preoccupied with what other people doing or saying.

A

It throws you off and keeps you from focusing on your mind.

35
Q

What are you thinking?

A

Do you have always an unswer? An answer which you do not have to be ashamed of. Thoughts not related to pleasures, thoughts of an unselfish person.

36
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Train you thought.

A

What can I do to make life better? How can I help? Avoid irrelevant thoughts.

37
Q

Stay in touch with what is within you.

A

Be a person untouched by arrogance. Stay invularable to any pain. Person who is pure, not a slave of pleasures.

38
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How to act?

A

Never under compulsion without forethought.
Don’t gussy up your thoughts. / decorate/
No surplus of words or unnecessary action.
Let spirit in you represent a man, soldier, and citizen. Remain posted where you were and hold your position unless you called.
Cheerfulness. Without requiring other’s people help.
To stand up straight - not straightened.

39
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What is not compatible with justice, honesty, courage, self-control?

A

Fame, high position, wealth, anything that makes you lose shame, self-respect, make you hypocritic. make you ill will, betray a trust.
If you avoid all the above you won’t have a single moment of fear and desire.
If it is time go willingly.