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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30610)	10/2/2012 6:30:34 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

The favorite book of Wen JaiBao current premier of China is Meditations from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which even in its brevity has as much or more moral insight than the entire Koran put together. He could certainly could do a lot worse... If a person was honest, open and strong they would arrive at the same conclusions as Aurelius. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. Marcus Aurelius Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aurelius How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Marcus Aurelius Confine yourself to the present. Marcus Aurelius The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig. Marcus Aurelius Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. Marcus Aurelius You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. Marcus Aurelius Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live. Marcus Aurelius Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. Marcus Aurelius Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. Marcus Aurelius Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Marcus Aurelius Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. Marcus Aurelius He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius 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 Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. Marcus Aurelius We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Marcus Aurelius Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius A man should be upright, not be kept upright. Marcus Aurelius If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." Marcus Aurelius Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus Aurelius Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius Poverty is the mother of crime. Marcus Aurelius Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. Marcus Aurelius Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. Marcus Aurelius Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Marcus Aurelius Be content to seem what you really are. Marcus Aurelius The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. Marcus Aurelius The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. Marcus Aurelius Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. Marcus Aurelius And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. Marcus Aurelius Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Marcus Aurelius Each day provides its own gifts. Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. Marcus Aurelius Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Marcus Aurelius Men exist for the sake of one another. Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. Marcus Aurelius Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. Marcus Aurelius The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. Marcus Aurelius Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. Marcus Aurelius Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. Marcus Aurelius The act of dying is one of the acts of life. Marcus Aurelius Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them. Marcus Aurelius Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. Marcus Aurelius To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. Marcus Aurelius To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. Marcus Aurelius You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Aurelius Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. Marcus Aurelius Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. Marcus Aurelius To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. Marcus Aurelius Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aurelius The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. Marcus Aurelius There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with. Marcus Aurelius We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. Marcus Aurelius What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Marcus Aurelius Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. Marcus Aurelius To refrain from imitation is the best revenge. Marcus Aurelius Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. Marcus Aurelius The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. Marcus Aurelius When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Marcus Aurelius Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Marcus Aurelius Where a man can live, he can also live well. Marcus Aurelius

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30610)	10/2/2012 6:31:01 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Jefferson once said: I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Epicurus Quotes A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.