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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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...

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

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...

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

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...

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...