By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotations
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
To stand up -- or be setup?
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.
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.
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.'
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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.
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.