More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
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.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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.
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.
