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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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 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.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
