More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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.
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.
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
