Marcus Aurelius

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

The more you know the less you understand.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.