Marcus Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own read more

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -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

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good read more

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

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