Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that...

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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...

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;...

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

The best answer to anger is silence.

The best answer to anger is silence.

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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...

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

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

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be...

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be...

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.

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

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...

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.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this,...

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.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.