Marcus Aurelius

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a read more

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.

How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. -Marcus Aurelius.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by read more

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.