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.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
More Marcus Aurelius Quotes
-
-
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.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Receive without conceit, release without struggle.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
All things fade and quickly turn to myth.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
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 AURELIUS -
What we do now echoes in eternity.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
You always own the option of having no opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS