For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Compliments Quotes

The best answer to anger is silence.

The best answer to anger is silence.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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...

Each day provides its own gifts.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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.

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

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

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

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

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

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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,...

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...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native...

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication...

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication...

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew...

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words large or size with...

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words large or size with...

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.