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

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is...

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that...

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that...

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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...

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,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

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.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

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

Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and...

Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and...

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find...

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find...

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself

He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew...

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...