Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a misfortune but To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant...

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant...

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination,...

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination,...

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a...

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in...

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in...

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...