The best revenge is not to be like your enemy. – Marcus Aurelius
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. – Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. – Marcus Aurelius
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. – Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
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. – Marcus Aurelius
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour. – Marcus Aurelius
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. – Marcus Aurelius
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius
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
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. – Marcus Aurelius
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life. – Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius
Treat unenlightened souls with sympathy and indulgence, remembering that they are ignorant or mistaken about what’s most important. Never be harsh, remember Plato’s dictum: ‘Every soul is deprived of the truth against its will.’ – Marcus Aurelius
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aurelius
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. – Marcus Aurelius
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. – Marcus Aurelius
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