Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in...

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in...

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools...

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind;...

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys

There is no glory in outstripping donkeys

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you...

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you...

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination,...

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination,...

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in...

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in...

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink...

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means,...

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means,...