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When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll

When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

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Mistake, Stress, Thinking

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

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Men, Mind, Care
Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

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Inspirational, Philosophical, Failure

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

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Dope, Feelings, Belief
Quoted in "The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy" by Stephen Palmer and Ved P. Varma, Chapter 6, p. 84, 1997.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

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People, Understanding, Mind
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.

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Men, Understanding, Desire

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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Pain, Giving, Opinion

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

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Happiness, Thinking, Select

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

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Powerful, Puppets, Miraculous
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.165, Modern Library

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

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Spiritual, Thinking, Opinion

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

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Truth, Men, Atheism

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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Mother, Philosophical, Poverty
"Well Said, Well Spoken: 736 Quotable Quotes for Educators". Book edited by Robert D. Ramsey, p. 30, 2001.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

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Wise, Wisdom, Men

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

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Past, Over You

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

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Evil, Doe, Injustice
"Meditations".

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

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Happiness, Character, Carpe Diem
Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.116, Penguin UK

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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Wise, Philosophical, Math

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

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Hurt, Hurt Me, Happenings
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

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Science, Mind, Tranquility
Meditations IV.3

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

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Horse, Tasks, Vines

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

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Holy, Pantheism
Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.86, Modern Library

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

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World, Forgotten
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book VII, 21,

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

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Motivation, Men, Worry

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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Philosophy, Philosophical, Reality
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (18), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Confine yourself to the present.

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Philosophical, Mindfulness
Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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