More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
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.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
