The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus More Quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus More Quotes From Marcus Aurelius Antoninus If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 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 Antoninus It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.' Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
