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When I see that one thing [virtue] is supreme and most important, I cannot say that something else is, just to make you happy.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility and even temper.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Either you’re going to be depressed when your wish is not realized or foolishly pleased with yourself if it is, overjoyed for the wrong reasons.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
I say that virtue is more valuable than wealth to the same degree that eyes are more valuable than fingernails.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Most of us dread the deadening of the body and will do anything to avoid it. About the deadening of the soul, however, we don’t care one iota.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Don’t let outward appearances mislead you into thinking that someone with more prestige, power or some other distinction must on that account be happy.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
As you are careful when you walk not to step on a nail or turn your ankle, so you should take care not to do any injury to your character at the same time.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If you lost the capacity to read, or play music, you would think it was a disaster, but you think nothing of losing the capacity to be honest, decent and civilized.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; so our perturbations come only from our inner opinions.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
As it is with a play, so it is with life – what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is. It is not important at what point you stop. Stop wherever you will – only make sure that you round it off with a good ending.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he who does a certain thing.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If someone is incapable of distinguishing good things from bad and neutral things from either – well, how could such a person be capable of love? The power to love, then, belongs only to the wise man.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”
Quote by -Plato
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Quote by -Plato
“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”
Quote by -Plato
“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
Quote by -Plato
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”
Quote by -Plato
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.”
Quote by -Plato
“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
Quote by -Plato
“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head.”
Quote by -Plato
“And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.
Quote by -Plato
“A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.”
Quote by -Plato
“There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric....But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art--he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.”
Quote by -Plato
“He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse”
Quote by -Plato
“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
Quote by -Plato
“That which is imposing here on earth has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without succes, proud and lonely.”
Quote by -Otto Von Bismarck