"Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason."
- 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.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."
- Marcus Aurelius
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
- Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
- Marcus Aurelius
“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
- Marcus Aurelius
"When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it."
- Marcus Aurelius
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
- Marcus Aurelius
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
- Marcus Aurelius
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also."
- Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; (26 April 121 AD – 17 March 180 AD) was a Roman Emperor considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. Marcus Aurelius was also the last of the Five Good Emperors and ruled as co-emperor with Lucius Verus. Meditations, written in Koine Greek while on campaign is believed to be written for his own guidance and self-improvement on numerous topics including how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict. Text version on 12 books of Meditation is available for download http://classics.mit.edu/
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