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

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

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...

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

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;...

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 art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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

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

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...

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...

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

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

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of...

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

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,...

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.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

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

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.