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Watch and see the courses of the stars as if you are running alongside them, and continually dwell in your mind upon the changes of the elements into one another; for these imaginations wash away the foulness of life on the earth. When you are reasoning about mankind, look upon earthly things below as if from some vantage point above them.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
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Stoicism
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The View from Above, The Universal Perspective
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