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

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine...

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

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...

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.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

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.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

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

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

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;...

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

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...

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

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

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,...

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us...

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you...

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you...