Marcus Aurelius

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay

Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and read more

Zoilus, why do you delight in using a whole pound weight of gold for the setting of a stone, and thus burying your poor sardonyx? Such rings are more suited to your legs the weight is too great for fingers

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

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

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.