9782291046196
Marcus Aurelius
Notes
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
Thou hast embarked, thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out.
…be not either a man of many words, or busy about too many things.
…our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.
…all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and complete oblivion soon buries them.
…pass through the rest of life like one who has intrusted to the gods with his whole soul all that he has, making thyself neither the tyrant nor the slave of any man.
Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.
…be indifferent to things which are indifferent.
…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.