If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.
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Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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No one can lose either the past or the future.
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A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.
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How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life.
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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm.
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Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
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It is not the actions of others which trouble us but rather it is our own judgments.
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Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.
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