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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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.
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.
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.
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.
