My favorite Marcus Aurelius quotes

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius (26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD) Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and philosopher.

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