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.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
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.
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.
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'
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.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
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.
