God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.
Weitere Zitate von Marcus Aurelius
Zum Autor"He is so rich, he has no room to shit."
"Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that deserves to be despised."
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"If thou workest at that which is before thee ... Expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this."
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."