It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
– Marcus Aurelius

Nothing that goes on in anyone else’s mind can harm you.
-Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present.
-Marcus Aurelius

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
– Marcus Aurelius

Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
– Marcus Aurelius

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.
-Marcus Aurelius

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
-Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
-Marcus Aurelius

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
-Marcus Aurelius

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?
-Marcus Aurelius