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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“That which holds the mastery within us, when it is in accordance with Nature, is so disposed towards what befalls, that it can always adapt itself with ease to what is possible and granted us. For it is wedded to no definite material, but, though in the pursuit of its high aims it works under reservations, yet it converts into material for itself any obstacle that it meets with, just as fire when it gets the mastery of what is thrown in upon it. A little flame would have been stifled by it, but the blazing fire instantly assimilates what is cast upon it and, consuming it, leaps the higher in consequence.”
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius
― Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius

“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so strange and overwhelming, that an assumed stupidity is his only refuge.”
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
― On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
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