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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
