“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Meditations, Book 3, section 9 · View source
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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Meditations, Book 3, section 9 · View source
“Wheresoever thou mayest live, there it is in thy power to live well and happy.”Meditations, Book V, section XV (Meric Casaubon translation) · View source
“The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.”Meditations, Book VI, section V (Meric Casaubon translation) · View source
“That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.”Meditations, Book VI, section XLIX (Meric Casaubon translation) · View source
“Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.”Meditations, Book X, section XVIII (Meric Casaubon translation) · View source