More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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.
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.
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
