Marcus Aurelius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #fear #live #man #never

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

#finding #insane #life #majority #object

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#say #true

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#happiness #life

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

#love

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#rome #soul #thoughts #wisdom #meditation

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#injury #itself #reject #sense #your

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#causes #consequences #grievous #how #more

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational

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

#arm #disturb #future #meet #never