Let not thy thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles which thou mayest expect to befall thee: but on every occasion ask thyself, What is there in this which is intolerable and past bearing? for thou wilt be ashamed to confess.
Marcus Aurelius offers counsel on managing anxiety by breaking down future worries and confronting the immediate nature of present difficulties.
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But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
Reflecting on all this, consider nothing to be great, except to act as thy nature leads thee, and to endure that which the common nature brings.
The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
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