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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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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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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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
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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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My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
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Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.
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I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
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The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
