More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
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 happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
