Marcus Aurelius: Citáty v angličtine (page 18)

“You want praise from people who kick themselves every fifteen minutes, the approval of people who despise themselves.”

“Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity… yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. …he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal …he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.”

“Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of things which happen to thee?”

“Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.”

“When a bunch of known corrupt people unite against one man and spare no effort to ridicule him, blackmail him and attempt to assassinate his character, blindly follow that one man!”

“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

“Each day provides its own gifts.”

“The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”

“Loss is nothing else but change,and change is Natures delight.”

“No thefts of free will reported.”

“Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger.”

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own”

“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.”

“I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled?”

“Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud?”

“For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.”

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”

“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.”