...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their… — 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
“We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To read with diligence; not to rest satisfied with a light and superficial knowledge, nor quickly to assent to things commonly spoken… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations;… — marcus aurelius Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant,… — 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
