Quote #30
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
More from Marcus Aurelius
- Very little is needed to make a happy life.
- Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
- It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.
- Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other things. For thing…
- All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.
- What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
- Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.