Marcus Aurelius

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

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.

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.

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

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.