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.
It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
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.
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.
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
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.
Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.
Live each day as if it be your last.
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.
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
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.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
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