Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Marcus AureliusMeditations, Book VII
About Marcus Aurelius
Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher who wrote the Meditations. (121-180)
More from Marcus Aurelius
- Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Meditations, Book X
- The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.Meditations, Book VI
- The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.Meditations, Book V
- If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.Meditations, Book XII
- Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.Meditations, Book VII, tr. George Long
- The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.Meditations, Book V, tr. Gregory Hays
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- If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.Rumi
- Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
- Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Let us cultivate our garden.Voltaire
- Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.Voltaire
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