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

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an...

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an...

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...

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 happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly,...

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself;...

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself;...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and...

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning...

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning...

Each day provides its own gifts

Each day provides its own gifts

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...

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

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...

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go...

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

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working...

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have...

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have...