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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
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.
Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
