You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.
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Other Marcus Aurelius quotes:
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.
The existence of evil does not harm the world. And an individual act of evil does not harm the victim. Only one person is harmed by it - and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to.
If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.
