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
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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 Antoninus
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ~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
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