Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

The best answer to anger is silence.

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time.

You can commit injustice by doing nothing.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

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.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man—yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.