More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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?
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
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.
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.
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.
