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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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...

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.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than...

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than...

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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...

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.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to...

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...

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...

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...

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says...

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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

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

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.