Top 10 Best Quotes from Marcus Aurelius

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.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

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

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter

not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Many lumps of incense on the same altar. One crumbles now, one later, but it makes no difference.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Dwell on the beauty of life

Begin each day by telling yourself

Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them

Confine yourself to the present

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others