Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
Quotes to Explore
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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I was a handful growing up.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!
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It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band there. I'd sit in with the band. Yeah, that's what I would do. Sit in with the band at the farmers market. Sing a couple of songs, eat a peach, and hug people.
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For me, the optimum circumstances for writing a book are those of stultifying routine.
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Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
