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Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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MARCUS AURELIUS Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it th...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS The passing minute is every man's equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours
MARCUS AURELIUS The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
MARCUS AURELIUS You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents
MARCUS AURELIUS Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your...
MARCUS AURELIUS You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim
MARCUS AURELIUS When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A...
MARCUS AURELIUS It is a mistake to think that Acerra reeks of yesterday's liquor: Acerra always drinks till next mor...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee
MARCUS AURELIUS Do you make a grievance of weighing so many pounds only instead of three hundred? Then why fret abou...
MARCUS AURELIUS You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it
MARCUS AURELIUS Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
MARCUS AURELIUS How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with th...
MARCUS AURELIUS No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing in nature is evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged ...
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