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More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
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.
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception
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.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
