Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris
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“The soul becomes dyed
with the colour of its thoughts.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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“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.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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“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.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face
and know them for what they are.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life;
it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
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Marcus Aurelius
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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2017
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“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.”
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Marcus Aurelius
quotations from The Meditations
