We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
[Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
[Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
[Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do,
the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest
of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude
it may be.
[Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For it would have been better that man should have been born
dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.
M.F. MOONZAJER All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I chea...
CHARLES DICKENS Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
EDWARD R. MURROW One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding
an engagement, Fabius exhausted the...
QUINTUS ENNIUS War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to g...
GUY SAJER Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under th...
JOHN MILTON Geopolitical wise, it's just more of the same. People are resigned to the fact that we're going to w...
PETER BOOCKVAR China is firmly opposed to Lee Teng-hui carrying out any activities in Japan under any pretext.
ZHANG QIYUE Lesson 1: Don't trust anybody.
Lesson 2: Be confident.
Lesson 3: Nothing is ever what it s...
JACK HEATH it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON The occupiers of Iraq have imposed their ominous presence on the Iraqi nation under pretext of provi...
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity,...
F. SIONIL JOSE If you don't expand the freedom of the citizens, you'll find yourself in a country which quite comfo...
JOSE RODRIGUEZ The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE It is certain that Iraq's occupiers, who have imposed their evil presence in Iraq under the pretext ...
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI Organisations find no rationale to increase the salary of the employees, but get often reasons to de...
ANUJ SOMANY Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Marcus is the type of cop we all wished we could be,
BILL CLARK Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty importe...
JAMES FENTON You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - ...
BORIS YELTSIN The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn’t to overcom...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
GEORGE CARLIN Well… er -”
“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE When we lost those cheerleaders we had to change our whole routine. That really took a lot of the di...
HEATHER ROSE I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word...
JOHN NELSON DARBY Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened...
PETER J. CARROLL We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and...
KIM IL-SUNG The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Glutto...
JOHN CHANCELLOR For our customers, the arrival of The Neiman Marcus Christmas Book marks the official start of the h...
BRENDAN HOFFMAN I saw him bobble the ball and we had a great runner. Marcus is one of our fastest runners. I never h...
BRIAN JOROS There's no excuse for it. It's our home gym. We practice here every day, so there's no excuse for it...
JEFF ARNTSON A lot of times on our show, 'Shadowhunters,' we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART Sloth is the key to poverty.
PROVERB Marcus was great. Jon had the big first half, and then Marcus took over in the second half. Marcus d...
GRANT RICE I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it'...
MILTON FRIEDMAN We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zea...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW [ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of brig...
LAVAR ARRINGTON The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the ...
M. SCOTT PECK He's just going to keep getting better. We haven't seen the best of Marcus Vick yet.
JEFF KING The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
VOLTAIRE The more direct connection with the customer, the better, ... This is our extension of the Neiman-Ma...
GROUP INC Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
PATRICK O'BRIAN I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it&...
MILTON FRIEDMAN You listen to me, woman: you’re mine! I’ll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!” Hi...
SHIRLEE BUSBEE National defense is the usual pretext for the policy of fleecing the people.
JOHN TAYLOR Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prov...
BRIAN ADAMS If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.
THOMAS S. MONSON Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true moti...
ISAAC NEWTON With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussio...
MARTIN VAN BUREN Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
BILL GRIFFITH In the evening of that day, after completing my preparations, I supped on the remaining portions of ...
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object...
ELIZABETH HURLEY We need Marcus and Brad to have outstanding nights. Both of them. Not just one of them.
BUDDY VALINSKY They (Marcus) got the ball in the net and we didn't do a good job of challenging their shots.
BOB WEIR Every leader should also be under a leader
SUNDAY ADELAJA The real difficulty is always in ourselves,
not in our surroundings.
SRI AUROBINDO Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve...
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
MASON COOLEY For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.
KAYODE FAYEMI What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportu...
J. SIDLOW BAXTER foggy hangover....fending off sloth and torpor....the battle within!!!!!
MUKESH KWATRA Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I ob...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Ignorance is no excuse when once we know that ignorance is the only possible excuse.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
More Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
[Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus seg...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you re...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus v...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
[Lat., Deficit omne quod nascitur.]
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
[Lat., Est felicibus difficilis miserar...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do,
the practise of a fair and quick h...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest
of men, I will find something in th...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
[Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance
of natural capacity, rules and prec...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude
it may be.
[Lat., Etiam singulor...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) For it would have been better that man should have been born
dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather ...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
QUINTILIAN For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather t...
QUINTILIAN For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
QUINTILIAN That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
QUINTILIAN Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
QUINTILIAN It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
QUINTILIAN A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
QUINTILIAN The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body...
QUINTILIAN Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
QUINTILIAN Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
QUINTILIAN We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
QUINTILIAN It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at time...
QUINTILIAN The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is ...
QUINTILIAN It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies...
QUINTILIAN Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
QUINTILIAN The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
QUINTILIAN Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
QUINTILIAN While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
QUINTILIAN In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
QUINTILIAN We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
QUINTILIAN That which offends the ear will not easily gain
admission to the mind.
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
QUINTILIAN God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no chara...
QUINTILIAN Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barr...
QUINTILIAN Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies ...
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
QUINTILIAN When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QUINTILIAN The perfection of art is to conceal art.
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
QUINTILIAN Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
QUINTILIAN Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
QUINTILIAN It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
QUINTILIAN A liar should have a good memory
QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency
QUINTILIAN While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin
QUINTILIAN Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
QUINTILIAN Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish
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QUINTILIAN The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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LAURENT FABIUS We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social mo...
LAURENT FABIUS derail economic expectations of economic agents, and put public budgets in danger of new imbalances.
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LAURENT FABIUS The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process,
LAURENT FABIUS The Commission's proposal was adopted by all countries except Ireland, ... It is true it is the firs...
LAURENT FABIUS with confidence, but not complacency.
LAURENT FABIUS if the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).
LAURENT FABIUS When he announces that he's going to visit such and such a commune or suburb every week, that's not ...
LAURENT FABIUS I do think there is a need for coordination of economic policy, but this doesn't mean that everybody...
LAURENT FABIUS controlled very, very closely.
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LAURENT FABIUS To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unf...
QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving ...
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MARCUS SAMUELSSON Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You hav...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON For me, brunch is such a versatile meal since you can play on both the sweet and savory in your dish...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Spices, of course, are essential.
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food th...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between c...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Even just a few spices or ethnic condiments that you can keep in your pantry can turn your mundane d...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS The darker the chocolate is, the more antioxidants it contains. So when eaten in moderation - just a...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON 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 Weekends are sacred for me. They're the perfect time to relax and spend time with family and fri...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON 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 If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
MARCUS LUTTRELL I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing tha...
MARCUS LUTTRELL Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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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.
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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.
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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 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 Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin u...
MARCUS ANTONIUS It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
GREIL MARCUS 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...
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