More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
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.
