How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“consider how much more pain is brought on us by the anger and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“LII. To them that are sick of the jaundice, honey seems bitter; and to them that are bitten by a mad dog,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, "I have to go to work - as a human being. What… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share
