Best Quotes by Marcus Aurelius (Top 10)

  1. You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
  2. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
  3. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
  7. 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.
  8. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
  9. The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
  10. 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.

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