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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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.

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an...

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

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...

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely...

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely...

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than...

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than...

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble...

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...