“You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Calm quote

Emperor · 121 – 180

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, author of the Meditations.

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

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

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

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.