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 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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There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.
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My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.
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I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.
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I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
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Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
