I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now… — 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