15 Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Tolerance, Forgiveness

1. "A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man’s acts." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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2. "If they’ve injured you, then they’re the ones who suffer for it. But have they?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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3. "To live in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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4. "Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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5. "It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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6. "You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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7. "I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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8. "To be angry at something means you’ve forgotten: that everything that happens is natural. That the responsibility is theirs, not yours." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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9. "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: what fault of mine most nearly resembles the one i am about to criticize?" (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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10. "With what are you discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to your mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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11. "When you are offended at any man’s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred: for example, in thinking that money is a good thing or pleasure, or a bit of reputation, and the like." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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12. "Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t hurt me unless i interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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13. "No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people – even for caring about them – for that, yes." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

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14. "When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet

15. "Consider that you also do many things wrong, and that you are a man like others; and even if you do abstain from certain faults, still you have the disposition to commit them, though either through cowardice, or concern about reputation, or some such mean motive, you abstain from such faults." (Marcus Aurelius) Click to tweet