Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Topics: Husbands Quotes, Love Quotes, Wives Quotes

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

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 refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things...

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things...

Be content to seem what you really are.

Be content to seem what you really are.

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...

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

All is ephemeral, - fame and the famous as well

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant...

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not...

It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not...

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

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

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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;...

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

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

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

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.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be...

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be...

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Camaraderie ends when crime begins.

Camaraderie ends when crime begins.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.