We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

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...

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always...

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and...

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and...

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

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...

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is...

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...

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

Be content to seem what you really are

Be content to seem what you really are

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little...

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little...

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.