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Wells Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
- All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
- Where a man can live, he can also live well.
- All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is…
- But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art…
- By a tranquil mind, I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
- When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having…
- Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
- The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can…
- Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask…
- Wherever a man lives, he may live well.
- When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the…
- Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any…
- Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change…
- 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,…
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
More Wells Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman