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

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day,...

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day,...

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,...

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...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do...

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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

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

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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...

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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

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

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all...

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant...

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

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.

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.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word...

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our...

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...