Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.


Marcus Valerius Martialis

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
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He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON
Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
MARCUS MANILIUS
Certain foods are good for preparing your body for an intense workout and giving you the energy you ...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I th...
MARCUS LEMONIS
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual cand...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
The company's contributions are practically never made on the basis of friendship, party affiliation...
ALAN MARCUS
It's a part of doing business. We're a professional-services firm and we have given to many politici...
ALAN MARCUS
It's not unusual. It's common. And until somebody makes it illegal, they're going to keep doing it.
ALAN MARCUS
We're really looking to branch out into new markets with this technology.
ALAN MARCUS
I think a lot of retailers were playing it a bit more conservative. If you look at it three years ag...
ALAN MARCUS
John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS
It's incredible. Right now we're about 40 percent up from this time last year. It's been extraordina...
ALAN MARCUS
The whole world is run on bluff.
MARCUS GARVEY
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come beca...
MARCUS COLE
I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
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
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music...
GREIL MARCUS
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
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking fo...
GREIL MARCUS
Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in tas...
GREIL MARCUS
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
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you ...
MARCUS GARVEY
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec.
MARCUS DOLENGO
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
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of...
GREIL MARCUS
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
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