Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Today
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You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.
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Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.
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Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.
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I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
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Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
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Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
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Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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