“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
Impediment: a hindrance or obstruction in doing something.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
Impediment: a hindrance or obstruction in doing something.
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
Grievous: “ very severe or Serious”
“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”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true – do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticise?”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“Our life is what our thoughts make it”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius Roman Stoic Philosopher, 121 – 180