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A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not pre...
ROBERT EMMET When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
MARCUS AURELIUS Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, love them. But those who respect their natures and wish...
EDWIN WAY TEALE Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wis...
EDWIN WAY TEALE Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" i...
HENRY FORD With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelso...
BUDDHA As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell yo...
HARPER LEE As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE Let the world be a better place because you are here. Let unborn generations to come bless God becau...
CLEMENT OGEDEGBE Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. Yo...
STEVE MARABOLI Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures...
EDWIN WAY TEALE As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you ...
HARPER LEE Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON the main purpose was to see him and let him know he failed.
EMILY LYONS So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.
MAE WEST The purpose of the letter was to let his (Nixon's) contributors know he was 40 points behind and als...
DAN PATRICK How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let us live as people who are prepared to die, and die as people who are prepared to live.
JAMES STEWART We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimat...
PABLO SANDOVAL There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a ...
STEWART O'NAN Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
HELMUT SCHMIDT Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus ...
FRANCINE RIVERS A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
FRANK A. CLARK God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison
BUDDHA My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra an...
KAREN DUFFY Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none;...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know."
He let her hand go, but he was stari...
CASSANDRA CLARE When you know who I am. Let me be your man.
KAREN MARIE MONING I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,
ROSA PARKS He wanted to let them know he was thinking of them and their families throughout this holiday, and t...
ALLEN ABNEY Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” �...
FRANCINE JAY People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics...
WAYNE DYER Don't try to show people who you are, let them see it for them selves.
THE INSPIRATIONIST Let negative people live their negative lives with their negative minds.
MOOSA RAHAT Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY What is your motto Mr. Valentino? Live and Let Live.
RUDOLPH VALENTINO The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” –Marcus Aurelius...
FRANCINE JAY The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real.
JAMIE FOXX I love my movies as they are. I let them develop their own lives.
WERNER HERZOG There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco do...
MOLIERE Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.
JOHN CONNOLLY I think that he just impacted our lives so much that we wanted to let everyone else know.
BRE JONES He gave me a stack of batting gloves. He said, 'Mike, if you need anything, you let me know.' I woul...
MIKE AVILES [Caine]
"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."
[Sam]
MICHAEL GRANT Let life be lived by those who are treated low by those who live lower than the lives lived by those...
CHELSEY CURTIS I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his plac...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We honor him as a fallen American hero. We are here to honor this young man, support his family and ...
ASHA LAMY Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let...
BIBLE Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as ...
EDWARD EVERETT HALE It's real hard. I guess if anybody out there knows what happened to him, could you please call the p...
CRYSTAL JARVIS In the flat above Coraline’s, under the roof, was a crazy old man with a big mustache. He told Cor...
NEIL GAIMAN As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
SOCRATES No one knows who we are, so we're going to let them know who we are,
GREG RYAN Yeah, his school! It was his first real home, the place that meant he was special; it meant everythi...
J.K. ROWLING The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
DAVID STARR JORDAN Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal...
ADOLF HITLER Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal ...
ADOLF HITLER The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share...
MARCUS AURELIUS I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine
TAYLOR SWIFT Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the...
HOWARD PYLE Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not di...
VICTOR DEVLIN We're asking them to be ready, and as the situation develops we'll let them know,
BOB LARSON So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate, Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...
SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting ...
WILLIAM MCFEE I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in...
ANTHONY MANN As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
TAIYE SELASI As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will-he will be sure to repent it.
SOCRATES I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not ...
ROBERT E. HOWARD He did it with pride, ... And I'm glad my brother did it, with pride he stand up for who he is to de...
CHAI VANG Let perfection go beyond just word to essence_ as it is meant to be.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going ...
LA INDIA Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS We let them get belligerent and antagonistic. ... As closely as we can, we try to replicate what a r...
JOHN BARRETT Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucination...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is how we let them really know us.
CARL R WHITE He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road. HOMER
There are hermit so...
SAM WALTER FOSS I just let them know the momentum was turning our way, I wanted to make sure they knew who gets the ...
LAURA SCHULER WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
EDWARD ABBEY Nobody sees any one as he is, let alone an elderly lady sitting opposite a strange young man in a ra...
VIRGINIA WOOLF He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what ...
GARY MARSH A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who...
FRANK A. CLARK Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: / That men ...
BIBLE When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind t...
GRETCHEN CARLSON I just wanted to go and see him and let him know I was sorry.
BUBBA CROSBY The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he...
G.K. CHESTERTON And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he ...
BIBLE Find a woman who will be your equal in every way. Don’t let yourself fall for someone who’ll put...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Live in me, let me live in you, says the Lord.
JESUS CHRIST Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.
MICK MARS I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is every artist's fantasy to run things. I know personally, I'd be happiest as dictator of a smal...
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MARCUS AURELIUS What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
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 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 Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself g...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...
MARCUS AURELIUS Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
MARCUS AURELIUS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anger cannot be dishonest.
MARCUS AURELIUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grape...
MARCUS AURELIUS To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
MARCUS AURELIUS The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...
MARCUS AURELIUS Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they wo...
MARCUS AURELIUS It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
MARCUS AURELIUS We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...
MARCUS AURELIUS A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
MARCUS AURELIUS Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
MARCUS AURELIUS For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ...
MARCUS AURELIUS From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...
MARCUS AURELIUS He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
MARCUS AURELIUS 'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
MARCUS AURELIUS Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
MARCUS AURELIUS The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
MARCUS AURELIUS The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
MARCUS AURELIUS You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
MARCUS AURELIUS Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
MARCUS AURELIUS You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
MARCUS AURELIUS When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
MARCUS AURELIUS It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
MARCUS AURELIUS You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
MARCUS AURELIUS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS