June 25
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? -Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
June 21
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject. -Marcus Aurelius
June 18
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
-Marcus Aurelius
June 17
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
-Marcus Aurelius
June 14
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. -Marcus Aurelius
June 13
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
-Marcus Aurelius
June 10
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill… I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.
-Marcus Aurelius
June 05
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -Marcus Aurelius
May 31
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
-Marcus Aurelius