A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

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...

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...

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

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;...

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge,...

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you...

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you...

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself....

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely...

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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...

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...

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...

Here's the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: Live neither in the...

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias