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.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

The best answer to anger is silence.

The best answer to anger is silence.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with...

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with...

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make...

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make...

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

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.

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find...

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but...

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but...

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,...

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,...