Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?
Marcus AureliusDon't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.
Marcus AureliusThere is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Marcus AureliusEnough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.
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