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Best Power Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you…
- Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why…
- 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…
- If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
- For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
- 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…
- It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power…
- It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of…
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this…
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul. It is within ourselves and in our way of thinking.
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