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.

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

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of read more

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Confine yourself to the present.

Confine yourself to the present.