Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Confine yourself to the present.
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are interdependent, and they combine to form this universal order. There is only one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one-if, as we believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
Everything that happens, happens as it should.
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.
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