Marcus Aurelius Quotes

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
• When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to…
• Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
• Confine yourself to the present.
• You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
• The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
• 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.
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to…
• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
• Our life is what our thoughts make it.
• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
• Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against…
• The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
• Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
• How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on…
• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The…

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