Marcus Aurelius

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

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

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.

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