Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

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

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good...

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good...

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...

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if...

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

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...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no...

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less...

The best answer to anger is silence.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates...

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any...

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any...