To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSTo refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUSDo every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
MARCUS AURELIUSIt’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
MARCUS AURELIUSFor it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
MARCUS AURELIUSThe blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
MARCUS AURELIUSRemember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUSEverything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.
MARCUS AURELIUSLook beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUSAll things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUSWhen you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
MARCUS AURELIUSAdapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
MARCUS AURELIUSLive out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
MARCUS AURELIUSVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUSNo one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
MARCUS AURELIUS