More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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.
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.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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.
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
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.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
