Author of quotes: Marcus Aurelius. Page 7

You need to be right, not correct.

No man can lose neither the past nor the future. For who would Rob me of something I don't have?

Now - that is all that you can lose, because only they have, and no one is deprived of what is not.

To philosophize is to protect the inner genius of reproach and blemish, to ensure that he was above the pleasures and pains that it was not in his actions, nor folly, no deception, no hypocrisy, not to touch it, doing or not doing something his neighbor, to everything and given him an inheritance he looked like stemming out from where came forth himself, and most importantly - that he was meekly waiting for death, as a simple expansion of those elements that have created every living thing. But if the elements there's nothing wrong with their continuous transition into each other, where reason to fear anyone of their total change and decay? Because the latter, according to the nature, and the fact that, according to the nature, can't be bad.

Do not squander the rest of your life in thoughts about others, unless it is not about anything non-profit. After thinking about who does what and for what he does, who says what, plotting and making you miss another thing: all this is distracting from worries about their own leadership early.

Svennis in himself.

The real way to revenge the enemy is not to be like him.

Copulation is friction of the intestines and the mucus with a sort of shudder.

Dream of the great: only the great dreams have the power to touch the human soul.

It is necessary every morning tell yourself: today I will meet with the fool, insolent, rude, a fraud.

Change your attitude to things that are bothering you, and you'll be safe from them.

Remember that to change your mind and follow what corrects your mistake, more in line with freedom than persistence in wrong.

The perfection of nature is expressed in the fact to spend every day as your last.
(Live each day like the last one, no fuss, not to be indifferent, not to adopt theatrical poses - here is perfection of character.)

Weird! People outraged by the evil that comes from outside, from others, that resolve can't, not fighting their own evil, although it is in his power.