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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Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
