“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered , irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Confine yourself to the present.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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