Marcus Aurelius

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you read more

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.