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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.


Marcus Porcius Cato

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MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the l...
GREIL MARCUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS ANTONIUS