Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We should remark the grace and fascination that there is even in the incidentals of Nature's processes.. When a loaf of bread,. for instance,.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“If therefore it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
