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Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions)

One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121–180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Asc

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

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Living

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts…”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Thoughts, Thinking, way of thinking

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

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Optimism Quotes

“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Acceptance, Mistakes, Correcting Mistakes

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, Reasons

“Act as your own nature commands you; put up with whatever common nature brings to you.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Amor fati

“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: comparison, Gossip, Integrity, Obsessive Comparison Disorder

“Life is warfare and a journey far from home.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: Life

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

“What we do now echoes in eternity.”

— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Philosophy, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences