Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
Confine yourself to the present.
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
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 ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
Live each day as if it be your last.
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.
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