Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. – Marcus Aurelius

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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. – Marcus Aurelius

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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. – Marcus Aurelius

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is mans life. – Marcus Aurelius

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. – Bible

Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. – Lord Chesterfield

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. – Charles Horton Cooley

Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment. – Bible

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