Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

it’s all in how you perceive it.

If it’s not right, don’t do it. If it’s not true, don’t say it.

It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will,

you were suddenly lifted up and could see life and its variety from a vast height, and at the same time all the things around you, in the sky and beyond it, you’d see how pointless it is.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.