Quote #42
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.
More from Marcus Aurelius
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- One can live well even in a palace.
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
- Living calls for the art of the wrestler, not the dancer. Staying on your feet is all; there is no need for pretty steps.