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Their Own Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is just…
- Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest…
- Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the…
- As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
- Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the…
- The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control;…
More Their Own Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet. — Sebastian Bach
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu