More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
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.
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.
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.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
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.
