FastSaying

To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it


Marcus Aurelius

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
ELIZABETH PETERS Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
JOHN WITHERSPOON Never read a book to finish it, read to consume it.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living o...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.
CAREW PAPRITZ Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so ...
BILLE AUGUST I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo...
JACKIE COLLINS The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a yea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ...
HILARY MANTEL When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
HELMUT SCHMIDT Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read....
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to ...
AMY TAN When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
MARCUS AURELIUS What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can r...
RICHARD PRICE You should read the novel in order to live, to feel, to tell someone the hidden secret of it.
R...
EMMA BRYNSTEIN I read for the part of Elizabeth, the virgin queen. I thought they said they were looking for a virg...
FRAN DRESCHER This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
WILLIAM GOLDMAN Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
JIM ROHN I was so sad to read recently that 32 percent of fourth- graders say they never read a book for plea...
BARBARA BUSH The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share...
MARCUS AURELIUS Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER I find your question bizarre, ... It would be along the line of saying that I shouldn't see a movie ...
JAYSON WILLIAMS Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it car...
CATHERINE LOWELL I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra an...
KAREN DUFFY It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ...
R.L. STINE Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
JIM ROHN I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
SYDNEY SMITH I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so
SYDNEY SMITH Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study ...
T.E. LAWRENCE I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read ...
DAVID ROBINSON How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister be...
DOROTHY ALLISON The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but, while you read it so badly, it begin...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
DOROTHY ALLISON Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor wh...
MERCEDES RUEHL When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist withou...
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONIUS You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant....
MARCUS AURELIUS For my 2015 Book Reading Challenge resolution, the 1 (one) book I want to read is titled: "Write, yo...
ROLF AND RANGER When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine R...
THOMAS KEN Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...
STEPHEN KING Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so t...
R. L. STINE When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p...
PAUL THEROUX I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b...
JESSYE NORMAN Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Of course it was very difficult to read the book. We read it through many tears, even knowing the st...
JOHN RIGGINS you are the only book of my life, which i love to read again and again. but unfortunately i am not a...
PRASOON DWIVEDI When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the ...
EKNATH EASWARAN I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understan...
FRANK OZ I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of...
LEV GROSSMAN If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ad...
KATE KLISE Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the boo...
DAVID DAVIS You are a book being read every moment,
By someone or the other,
Though only in parts! <...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA Never read any book that is not a year old.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
AMAN JASSAL Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes, u read a book and it fills u with this weird evangelical zeal, and u become convinced tha...
JOHN GREEN I'm still a bit of a reading glutton, I think, because I browse, read a bit of the back copy, fl...
JESMYN WARD When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca...
THEO JAMES I haven't read a book in my life,
VICTORIA BECKHAM I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire....
VANCE JOY I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myse...
JUNG CHANG I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
OPHELIA LOVIBOND It will be interesting to see how many Schenectady County residents read the book through this progr...
JOANNE DEVOE It was the fangirl code for every book geek: read, chat, squeal. Re-read, chat, and squeal again, un...
RACHAEL WADE A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "H...
ITALO CALVINO But I’m not one to read a book backwards.
BARBRA ANNINO Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
THOMAS SYDENHAM If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through per...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of he...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
BAYARD TAYLOR It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not b...
JORGE LUIS BORGES Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you...
ERIKA JOHANSEN At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The...
PHILIP ROTH When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
NORMAN MAILER I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher...
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS I thought nobody in his right mind was going to publish a book for kids by me -- not if they've read...
CARL HIAASEN I was very excited when I saw it and I went through it with my girlfriend and kid and we read the de...
GARY OWENS Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
TIM BURTON When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other peop...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is now my favourite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another bo...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another boo...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

More Marcus Aurelius

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the futur...
MARCUS AURELIUS What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Be content to seem what you really are.
MARCUS AURELIUS You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be...
MARCUS AURELIUS The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with ...
MARCUS AURELIUS The universe is transformation: life is opinion.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
MARCUS AURELIUS Poverty is the mother of crime.
MARCUS AURELIUS The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Confine yourself to the present.
MARCUS AURELIUS To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finis...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for s...
MARCUS AURELIUS Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to lo...
MARCUS AURELIUS The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault o...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
MARCUS AURELIUS Our life is what our thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
MARCUS AURELIUS The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm an...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your life is what your thoughts make it.
MARCUS AURELIUS And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
MARCUS AURELIUS Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the go...
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, t...
MARCUS AURELIUS To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits...
MARCUS AURELIUS One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, th...
MARCUS AURELIUS The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
MARCUS AURELIUS Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. S...
MARCUS AURELIUS Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
MARCUS AURELIUS Where a man can live, he can also live well.
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
MARCUS AURELIUS A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
MARCUS AURELIUS Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself go...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good...
MARCUS AURELIUS Men exist for the sake of one another.
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushli...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them...
MARCUS AURELIUS Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that tim...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
MARCUS AURELIUS He tells himself over and over again in any choice presented to him, 'Prefer the hard.' This holds g...
MARCUS AURELIUS Perfection of character consists in this; living each day as if it were the last, and spending each ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against ma...
MARCUS AURELIUS When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
MARCUS AURELIUS He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, This is a mi...
MARCUS AURELIUS When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and...
MARCUS AURELIUS Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is unc...
MARCUS AURELIUS A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
MARCUS AURELIUS Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself g...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-re...
MARCUS AURELIUS Glory paid to our ashes comes too late
MARCUS AURELIUS The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
MARCUS AURELIUS Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst
MARCUS AURELIUS Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
MARCUS AURELIUS For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
MARCUS AURELIUS So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of ...
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.
MARCUS AURELIUS The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
MARCUS AURELIUS The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know th...
MARCUS AURELIUS When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetra...
MARCUS AURELIUS The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I see...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,bu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
MARCUS AURELIUS Each day provides its own gifts
MARCUS AURELIUS Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, wh...
MARCUS AURELIUS Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the n...
MARCUS AURELIUS The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
MARCUS AURELIUS Anger cannot be dishonest.
MARCUS AURELIUS Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought t...
MARCUS AURELIUS Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grape...
MARCUS AURELIUS To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
MARCUS AURELIUS That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
MARCUS AURELIUS The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...
MARCUS AURELIUS Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
MARCUS AURELIUS Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they wo...
MARCUS AURELIUS It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;...
MARCUS AURELIUS We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, b...
MARCUS AURELIUS A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to...
MARCUS AURELIUS Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
MARCUS AURELIUS Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imaginatio...
MARCUS AURELIUS For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not ...
MARCUS AURELIUS From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unre...
MARCUS AURELIUS He misses what is meant by epigram - who thinks it only frivolous flimflam
MARCUS AURELIUS 'Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
MARCUS AURELIUS The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ra...
MARCUS AURELIUS I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume
MARCUS AURELIUS Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
MARCUS AURELIUS To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution
MARCUS AURELIUS Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday
MARCUS AURELIUS The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp stre...
MARCUS AURELIUS Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolen...
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 ...
MARCUS AURELIUS If it does not fit leave it, if it is not true do not say it.
MARCUS AURELIUS To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice
MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS