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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.


Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
MARCUS AURELIUS We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...
MARCUS AURELIUS A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
MARCUS AURELIUS Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
MARCUS AURELIUS For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ...
MARCUS AURELIUS From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...
MARCUS AURELIUS He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
MARCUS AURELIUS 'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
MARCUS AURELIUS Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
MARCUS AURELIUS The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
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