"If you suffer because of external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your judgment about them."
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Marcus Aurelius is one of the Stoic philosophers.
More quotes from Marcus Aurelius
- "When you rise in the morning, think of the precious privilege of being alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- "Every day seek beauty, and it will reveal itself."
- "Kindness is invincible."
- "Do not live as if you were to live forever. Death hangs over you."
- "Things do not touch the soul, but remain outside of it, and disturbance comes only from internal opinion."