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In this video we will be talking about the 10 Stoic Teachings of Marcus Aurelius We Should Use in the Modern Times. Marcus Aurelius was deeply influenced by Stoicism and wrote a manual which we know as “meditations.
“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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