Career Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“This lack of leisure and of intimacy is not a peripheral matter—nothing Socrates thinks can be expeditiously conveyed by public deliverance; it must always…

— Eva Brann

“Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.”

— Philip Freeman

“Alexander was no longer so much the master of his lust, having been fawned upon by Fortune, whom mortal men too little distrust.”

— Andrew Chugg

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself,…

— Marcus Aurelius

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't…

— Seneca the Younger

“Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing, and cease roving…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.”

— Diane Johnson

“Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and trade and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson