Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD) quotes
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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 have the power to revoke at any moment.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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 virtue, and reasonable nature.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to a man’s work.’
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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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 have the power to revoke at any moment.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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 virtue, and reasonable nature.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to a man’s work.’
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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