To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Advice Quotes

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing...

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the...

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the...

You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich -...

You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich -...

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you...

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you...

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but...

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the...

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

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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.

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...

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

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

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

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...

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

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

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

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other...

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other...

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other...

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other...