Marcus Aurelius

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

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

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.

You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents

You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents