Top 10 Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Life

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 I find myself being drawn to Stoicism... Here are my 10 top quotes by - the famous Stoic Roman Emperor - Marcus Aurelius.

  1. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
  2.  “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
  3. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together...”
  4. “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
  5.  “Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”
  6.  “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
  7. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
  8. “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
  9. “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.”
  10. “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.”

Image: "... pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it ..."
Image: Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius "... not a fact ... not the truth"