# Marcus Aurelius ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2025-08-23_marcus_aurelius.jpg|400]] ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Marcus Aurelius]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Marcus Aurelius]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[A true philosopher is a fighter not a fencer. A fencer has to put on armour and pick up a weapon. A fighter just has to close his fist]] - [[Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is unable to do anything else]] - [[Do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored]] - [[Give yourself a gift, the present moment]] - [[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment]] - [[If you are pained by external things, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it]] - [[In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about business]] - [[Kindness is invincible]] - [[Stop wandering about]] - [[The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way]] - [[The obstacle on the path becomes the way]] - [[Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perception, not outside]] - [[We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind—for things have no natural power to shape our judgements]] - [[What is bad luck. Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity. They are all opinions]] - [[Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #books AND [[Marcus Aurelius]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #books AND [[Marcus Aurelius]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius (book)]] <!-- SerializedQuery END -->