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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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. – Marcus Aurelius

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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. – Marcus Aurelius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

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It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. – Arnold Bennett

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

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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

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