Marcus Aurelius

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Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter.

It’s time you realized that you have something in your more powerful.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts. So dye your own.

To see the causes of things stripped bare.

Remember how long you have been putting this off, how many times you have been given a period of grace by the gods and not used it. It is high time now for you.

No one can lose either the past or the future — how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?

The lamp shines until it is put out.

If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.

The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.

What is divine is full of Providence.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense.

The lamp shines until it is put out.

What’s in my thoughts at this moment?

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone.

The condition of the soul and body when death comes for us.

Ignoring what goes on in other people's souls.

Practice even what seems impossible.