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I'll start.

This comment is very profound.
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"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind. Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."
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>>971151

What.
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>>971136
OP image looks like Caracalla rather than Aurelius.
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>>971136
that's not marcus aurelius
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>>971175

OP here.

That's why you can never trust the Internet.
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>>971188

OP here.

Yes we already distinguished that. But the quote is from Marcus Aurelius, therefore it's still legit, no matter if Caracalla's bust is there.
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>>971201
Except Marcus Aurelius never fucking said that.

http://threeshoutsonahilltop.blogspot.com/2011/06/marcus-aurelius-and-source-checking.html
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>>971159
Is this a fart joke or is he just telling people to not let others speak about them behind their backs?
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>No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Anything Sulla said, basically. The number 1 Alpha Male the Roman Empire ever produced.
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>>971201
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PRAGMATICS
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>I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
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>>971136
"He shares half a haplotype with us."
- Pure blooded German king
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>>971417
Will that video, or its memes, ever die?
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>>971417
He's really good looking though.
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Talleyrand

On Napoleon "What a pity the man wasn't lazy."

on Diplomacy "A diplomat who says 'yes' means maybe. A diplomat who says 'maybe' means no. A diplomat who says 'no' is no diplomat."
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Really makes you think.
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>>971136
He never said this.
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"As the late great colonial sanders once said, 'im to drunk to taste this chicken'"
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>>971494
"As the great late colonel sandler once said, 'im way to chicken to taste this drunk'"
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>>971136
That's Caracella, far a man from Marcus Aurelius.
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>>971525
The quote isn't real either
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>>971532
You're not real
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>>971591
damn....
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>>971456
>mfw I was born diplomat

Time to switch career
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"Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me."
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>>971151
I'm pretty sure this pic is wrong
It's been a while since I've read Meditations though
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>>971396
Everytime
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>>971151
Haha, no.
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>>971136
>This comment is very profound.

It's infantile.
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>>974307
>"it's infantile because it offends my very specific worldview"

Typical Christcuck
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>>971151
>there exist gods
fuck yeah give me Greco-Roman paganism any day
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>>974324
No, it's infantile because it's literally a fake quote which was manufactured to be shared around Facebook and Reddit by "enlightened" cretins like you.
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>>975109
#rekt
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>>971136
Begs the question eh
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>>971367
both
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>>971894
>>974293
>>974324
The OP quote is completely fabricated, you won't find it anywhere in his writings
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